[Tutorial] Installing MinimServer on FreeNAS or FreeBSD

[airflow]

(29-10-2026 05:21)imush Wrote:  Since airflow has moved on from FreeBSD, I can undertake to build the FreeBSD ohNet libraries for MinimServer. I tried to improve and automate the process as much as possible, so if minimserver upgrades ohNet, the build should appear on my github within a few days.

Wow, you're doing it much more nicely, just better than I ever did - thanks on behalf of all users that stay on FreeBSD. Cheers!

[imush]

(29-10-2026 09:20)airflow Wrote:  

(29-10-2026 05:21)imush Wrote:  Since airflow has moved on from FreeBSD, I can undertake to build the FreeBSD ohNet libraries for MinimServer. I tried to improve and automate the process as much as possible, so if minimserver upgrades ohNet, the build should appear on my github within a few days.

Wow, you're doing it much more nicely, just better than I ever did - thanks on behalf of all users that stay on FreeBSD. Cheers!

The niceities are mostly courtesy of AI these days. Claude fixed the build, updated rc scripts, figured out the github automation, wrote a nice web page and tested on 2 versions of FreeBSD in like 15 minutes.

It would likely take me many days just a year or two ago, and so I probably wouldn't do it in the first place.

You had to do the hard work yourself.

[simoncn]

Thanks for doing this.

The current MinimServer version of ohNet is 1.37.5521.2, not 1.37.5521. This contains some bug fixes that are not (yet) in the ohNet repository. You can download the source code for this version from this link.

[imush]

(29-10-2026 23:35)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for doing this.

The current MinimServer version of ohNet is 1.37.5521.2, not 1.37.5521. This contains some bug fixes that are not (yet) in the ohNet repository. You can download the source code for this version from this link.

Thanks, Simon, I hadn't realised 1.37.5521.2 had fixes of its own. I've rebuilt the FreeBSD zip from your source tarball, so it now has your UTF-8 string fixes. It's built and tested the same way as before: built on FreeBSD 13, with the ohNet self-test on 13, 14 and 15.

If you installed the zip from my earlier post, please replace it with this one:

Code:

cd /usr/local/share/minimserver/libext
fetch -o 'ohnet(linux-intel)-1.37.5521.2.zip' https://github.com/imush/ohnet-freebsd/releases/download/v1.37.5521.2-2/ohnet.linux-intel.-1.37.5521.2.zip

then restart MinimServer. The guide at https://imush.github.io/ohnet-freebsd/ now links to this build.

Simon, if a future MinimServer ohNet again carries fixes that aren't upstream, a link to the source like this one is all I need: the build picks it up from there.

PS it looks like ohNet is not eagerly merging outside changes. I submitted a patch of my own but I see pull requests sitting there for years.