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Ports Status on RISC-V
Cross-Building Ports

Ports Status on RISC-V

Tracking build status of important/desired ports on RISC-V.

There is now an official package builder at http://beefy7.nyi.freebsd.org/ .

Packages are built for stable/13 (ports' quarterly branch) and main (ports' main branch).

The Most Notable Build Failures

Port	Status	Required For	Blocks	Notes
audio/lame	Fails to build		58
databases/mysql57-client	Fails to build		316	`/usr/include/c++/v1/__config:1141:6: error: "No thread API"`
java/bootstrap-openjdk8	Needs porting		554
lang/go	Needs upstreaming		510	- Sources: https://github.com/MikaelUrankar/go/tree/freebsd_riscv64 ; does not require COMPAT_FREEBSD11 - Prebuilt bootstrap: https://github.com/dmgk/go-bootstrap/releases/tag/go1.18beta2-1679-g4bdf93a078 - lang/go-devel port: https://github.com/dmgk/ports-riscv64 ; set DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=go=1.19-devel in /etc/make.conf
lang/gcc10	Fails to build		899	See PR 251403
lang/php74	Needs porting	php	886
lang/rust-bootstrap	Needs porting	lang/rust	347
multimedia/libx264	Fails to build		480

All Failing Builds

$/!\$ this list is now out-of-date:

See http://www.lonesome.com/FreeBSD/poudriere/data/logs/bulk/head-head-riscv64-default/2021-01-16_21h45m27s/build.html.

Everything that is marked blacklisted is either known to fail to build, or not built due to restricted and/or license reasons.

Common Build Failure Types

As seen by MarkLinimon 202101201:

Count	Failure	Suggested Fix	Comments
7	qemu: uncaught target signal		Often 11 (Segmentation fault), sometimes 6 (Abort trap) - core dumped
7	C compiler cannot create executables		or related "checking whether the C compiler works... no"
7	ld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_RISCV_HI20 against symbol
6	checking thread safety of required library functions... Segmentation fault		possibly subcase of "C compiler cannot create executables" above
5	error: use of undeclared identifier 'FP_X_INV'
2	relocation R_RISCV_ALIGN requires unimplemented linker relaxation; recompile with -mno-relax
2	ldd: <xyz>.so: not a FreeBSD ELF shared object	teach ldd to parse ELF notes	possibly fixed

Cross-Building Ports

There is some support for cross-compiling ports via poudriere(8) and qemu-user-static. This method works by emulating a RISC-V userspace with QEMU, so it is faster than building within an emulated system, but slower than building natively. The QEMU userspace emulation is imperfect.

Please refer to the FreeBSD Handbook entry about poudriere if you are unfamiliar with the tool or need to set it up.

The following command will create a new poudriere jail set up to cross-compile ports for the riscv.riscv64 target:

$ poudriere jail -c -a riscv.riscv64 -x -j 14riscv64 -m ftp -v 14.0-CURRENT -x

The -x argument instructs poudriere(8) to build native cross-toolchain. Make sure to specify it when updating the jail as well, like so:

$ poudriere jail -j 14riscv64 -u -x