Port details
electron39 Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
39.8.10_3 devel Σ 39.8.10_3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. Maintainer: tagattie@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 2025-11-09 14:21:06Last Update: 2026-07-31 22:48:39Commit Hash: 6d360dd License: BSD3CLAUSE LGPL21 MPL11 MITWWW: https://electronjs.org/ Description: # Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
It's easier than you think.
If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a
framework for creating native applications with web technologies like
JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can
focus on the core of your application. Manual pages: # FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist # USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines :
electron39>0:devel/electron39 No installation instructions: This port has been deleted. PKGNAME: electron39 Flavors: # there is no flavor information for this port. ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: aarch64 amd64 i386 distinfo: # TIMESTAMP = 1778162404
SHA256 (electron/chromium-142.0.7444.265.tar.xz.0) = 54ca3cf92f6a207a4e1b46fe016da7d515097f999b5e53ba4201adc906ae383e
SIZE (electron/chromium-142.0.7444.265.tar.xz.0) = 2000000000
No package information for this port in our database # Sometimes this happens. Not all ports have packages. Perhaps there is a build error. Check the fallout link:
Dependencies # NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered. Build dependencies: #
gperf : devel/gperf bindgen : devel/rust-bindgen-cli yasm : devel/yasm dri.pc : graphics/mesa-libs rustc : lang/rust videodev2.h : multimedia/v4l_compat node22>0 : www/node22 npm-node22>0 : www/npm-node22 bison : devel/bison gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake ninja : devel/ninja node : www/node22 node22>0 : www/node22 pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf python3.12 : lang/python312 clang21 : devel/llvm21 nasm : devel/nasm xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto x11.pc : x11/libX11 xcb.pc : x11/libxcb xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage xext.pc : x11/libXext xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes xi.pc : x11/libXi xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr xrender.pc : x11/libXrender xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver xtst.pc : x11/libXtst qt5-buildtools>=5.15 : devel/qt5-buildtools libQt5Core.so : devel/qt5-core libQt5Widgets.so : x11-toolkits/qt5-widgets
Test dependencies: #
git : devel/git py312-python-dbusmock>0 : devel/py-python-dbusmock@py312 Xvfb : x11-servers/xorg-server@xvfb 8x13O.pcf.gz : x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps fonts.alias : x11-fonts/font-alias base : x11/xkeyboard-config xkbcomp : x11/xkbcomp node22>0 : www/node22 python3.12 : lang/python312
Runtime dependencies: #
xdg-open : devel/xdg-utils libasound_module_pcm_oss.so : audio/alsa-plugins alsa-lib>=1.1.1_1 : audio/alsa-lib x11.pc : x11/libX11 xcb.pc : x11/libxcb xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite xcursor.pc : x11/libXcursor xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage xext.pc : x11/libXext xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes xi.pc : x11/libXi xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr xrender.pc : x11/libXrender xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies: #
libatk-bridge-2.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core libatspi.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core libFLAC.so : audio/flac libopus.so : audio/opus libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim libevent.so : devel/libevent libffi.so : devel/libffi libnotify.so : devel/libnotify libpci.so : devel/libpci libnspr4.so : devel/nspr libre2.so : devel/re2 libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm libpng.so : graphics/png libwayland-client.so : graphics/wayland libwebp.so : graphics/webp libdav1d.so : multimedia/dav1d libva.so : multimedia/libva libopenh264.so : multimedia/openh264 libfreetype.so : print/freetype2 libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz libsecret-1.so : security/libsecret libnss3.so : security/nss libexpat.so : textproc/expat2 libxkbcommon.so : x11/libxkbcommon libxshmfence.so : x11/libxshmfence libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig libasound.so : audio/alsa-lib libcups.so : print/cups libpipewire-0.3.so : multimedia/pipewire libsndio.so : audio/sndio libgbm.so : graphics/mesa-libs libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd libGLESv2.so : graphics/libglvnd libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core libcairo.so : graphics/cairo libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20 libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30 libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2 libxslt.so : textproc/libxslt libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango libiconv.so : converters/libiconv libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
Fetch dependencies: #
git : devel/git npm-node22>0 : www/npm-node22 node22>0 : www/node22
Patch dependencies: #
git : devel/git jq : textproc/jq
There are no ports dependent upon this port # Configuration Options : # ===> The following configuration options are available for electron39-39.8.10_3:
CODECS=on: Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264
CUPS=on: CUPS printing system support
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
DIST=off: Build distribution zip files
DRIVER=on: Install chromedriver
KERBEROS=on: Kerberos support
LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization
PIPEWIRE=on: Screen capture via PipeWire
====> Options available for the group AUDIO
ALSA=on: ALSA audio architecture support
PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support
SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support
====> Kerberos support: you can only select none or one of them
HEIMDAL=off: Heimdal Kerberos (security/heimdal)
HEIMDAL_BASE=off: Heimdal Kerberos (base)
MIT=off: MIT Kerberos (security/krb5)
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings Options name : # devel_electron39 USES: # bison compiler:c++17-lang cpe display:test gettext-tools gl gmake gnome iconv:wchar_t jpeg localbase:ldflags ninja nodejs:22,build npm:yarn4 pkgconfig python:build,test qt:5 shebangfix tar:xz xorg
pkg-message: # FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message Master Sites: #
Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) Commit Credits Log message 39.8.10_3 Rene Ladan (rene) devel/electron39: Remove expired port
2026-06-30 devel/electron39: EOLed upstream, switch to newer version 39.8.10_3 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.97.1
PR: 296645 39.8.10_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) */*: Adjust USES and USE_ELECTRON after electron.mk split (ed6a84c1c979) 39.8.10_2 Gleb Popov (arrowd) *: Fix dependency on Mesa after pkg-plist reshuffling 39.8.10_2 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron{37,38,39,40,41,42}: Unbreak chromium tarball extraction on
-current
When a user tries to build electron using a 16-current jail, it fails
in the extract phase with the following error:
tar: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
This is due to the ports framework sets the environment variable
LC_ALL to C, which causes tar to fail to extract files containing
non-ASCII characters in their names. To cope with this, EXTRACT_ENV
was introduced in the commit 98103f194302. Utilizing this variable
when extracting the chromium tarball fixes the error.
PR: 296017
Reported by: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com >,
fgorter <fgorter@gmail.com > 39.8.10_2 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.96.0
PR: 295694 39.8.10_1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Deprecate and set to expire on 2026-06-30 39.8.10 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.10
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.10
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.8.9_1 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.95.0
PR: 294615 39.8.9 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.9
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.9
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.8.8 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Fix build with rust 1.94
The previous patch fixed builds with rust 1.95. However, it broke
builds with rust 1.94, which is the current version in the ports
tree. This commit makes it build with both rust 1.94 and 1.95.
Fixes: 9cffc4aeae6a (devel/electron39: Fix build with rust 1.95) 39.8.8 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Fix build with rust 1.95
PR: 294615
Reported by: mikael 39.8.8 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.8
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.8
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.8.7 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.7
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.6
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.7
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.8.5 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.5
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.4
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.5
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.8.3_1 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.94.0
PR: 293615 39.8.3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.3
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.1
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.2
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.3
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.8.0 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.8.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.7.0 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.7.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.7.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.6.1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.6.1
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.6.1
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.6.0 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.6.0
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.5.2
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.6.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.5.1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.5.1
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.4.0
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.5.0
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.5.1
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.3.0_1 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.93.0
PR: 292360 39.3.0 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.3.0
Changelog: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.3.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.2.7 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.2.7
While here:
- switch to use USE_ELECTRON features of electron.mk for specifying
node package manager, pre-fetching necessary node modules, and
extracting the node modules into appropriate directories
- use USES=display for starting/stopping display server on testing
- specify TEST_ENV instead of listing env vars in test target
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.4
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.5
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.6
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.7
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.2.3_1 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.92.0
PR: 291582 39.2.3 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.2.3
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.1
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.2
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.3
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.2.0 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Update to 39.2.0
Changelog:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.1.2
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.2.0
Reported by: GitHub (watch releases) 39.1.1_1 Mikael Urankar (mikael) lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.91.1
PR: 290816 39.1.1 Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) devel/electron39: Add port: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript,
HTML, and CSS
Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
It's easier than you think.
If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a
framework for creating native applications with web technologies like
JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can
focus on the core of your application.
WWW: https://electronjs.org/
