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Offline Conor

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PixInsight and FreeBSD
« on: 2018 May 25 08:15:09 »
Greetings,

I suppose this post is geared towards the PI development team (namely Juan). I check in to see, periodically, but there hasn't been a PI release for FreeBSD over two years now. I'm aware that there have been issues with Qt, amongst other libraries, for the FreeBSD build, as well as personal issues which have hindered development, but the current release is not binary compatible with recent FreeBSD (base system, ports) and is therefore unusable, unless one has frozen their system two years ago. Is it possible to even get an old version (even with old Qt) that's linked against a more recent FreeBSD libc etc? Is there a new version which will support FreeBSD in the works, or is support dead/dying?
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Re: PixInsight and FreeBSD
« Reply #1 on: 2018 July 26 23:40:55 »
Bumping for visibility. I don't want this topic to go under the radar, since PI is unusable on one of its supported platforms at the moment, for everyone using that platform.
Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX III w/ QE Reducer
William Optics 110FLT Apo Triplet
William Optics Megrez 72 Apo Doublet
iOptron CEM60
QSI 583ws & 3nm Ha/OIII/SII filters
SBIG ST-i
Trying to use PixInsight on FreeBSD