Installing Valgrind

Installing from ports

pkg install valgrind will install Valgrind 3.18.1.

pkg install valgrind-devel will install a version of Valgrind that is tracking the upstream git repository, 3.18.0.GIT.

There may be some delay between package builds and the above versions, particularly if you use the quarterly packages'

Prerequisites

Building valgrind requires the following ports to be installed:

gmake
autoconf
automake

Obtaining the Valgrind source

Starting with Valgrind 3.18.1 FreeBSD support has been integrated into the main Valgrind codebase.

TheValgrindHomePage GettingTheLatestValgrindSource

Prior to 3.18.1 (though still maintained) the source was hosted on on github.

To check out this version of the source

git clone https://github.com/paulfloyd/freebsd_valgrind.git

An older version of Valgrind FreeBSD can be cloned from a mercurial repository on bitbucket.org: https://bitbucket.org/stass/valgrind-freebsd To check out the source: hg clone https://bitbucket.org/stass/valgrind-freebsd

Building

sh autogen.sh
./configure
gmake
gmake install

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