Installing Valgrind

Installing from ports

pkg install valgrind will install a patched version of Valgrind 3.10.1 from the bitbucket repo described below.

pkg install valgrind-devel will install a version of Valgrind that is close to the official Valgrind 3.16.1.

Prerequisites

Building valgrind requires the following ports to be installed:

gmake
autoconf
automake

Obtaining the Valgrind source

The most recent version of Valgrind for is available on github.

To check out the source

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

The previous version of the 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

TODO

Below is an old list of jobs that needed doing. rfork is still not implemented. We're working on upstream integration. TLS does affect Helgrind and possibly DRD. There are still some signal issues, mainly on i386.

Valgrind src

Test more syscalls which are disabled and implement the missing ones (rfork mainly, others to come).
Push FreeBSD changes to upstream valgrind
- [PATCH]: FreeBSD support for valgrind in the Valgrind bug tracker
Fix support for FreeBSD TLS
- http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/tls.html FreeBSD TLS notes
- http://lwn.net/Articles/5851/ Linux TLS notes
- http://www.pastebin.ca/1798637 Test application [dead link]
Growable stack / SIGSEGV / kqueue signal delivery issue.
ptrace handlers