OGV on FreeBSD

From BRL-CAD

Getting Ready[edit]

Since Meteor installer doesn't support freeBSD operating system, we need to manually build and compile the meteor source code. Currently, this method is tested on version 10.2-RELEASE-p18

If possible, use a freshly installed freeBSD system. Any trace of node/npm can create problems while compilation, Most of the problems I faced were because of some old/unsupported version of node and npm.

Installing a few packages[edit]

We need to install some packages in order to start our meteor compilation.

$ sudo pkg install -y bash git gmake mongodb node npm python

Installing Meteor[edit]

Step 1 : Clone the Repository[edit]

The first step is to get the meteor source code on your machine. I cloned it in home directory, so it's easy to execute meteor script, using $HOME variable.
$ cd $HOME

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/4commerce-technologies-AG/meteor

Step 2: Build the node module[edit]

Next cd into the cloned directory by
$ cd $HOME/meteor

Execute the build node script in scripts folder
$ scripts/build-node-for-dev-bundle.sh

Execute the generate bundle script
$ scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh

The above two scripts execution may take some time depending upon the configuration of the host machine. So have a little patience while executing them ;)

Step 3: Give meteor it's first try[edit]

Now meteor is installed successfully and you can give it first try by
$ $HOME/meteor/meteor --version

The above-mentioned code of line assumes that your meteor folder is in the home directory

Get OGV[edit]

Now that meteor is successfully installed, it's time to run OGV on system. Clone OGV from it's official repository by
git clone https://github.com/BRL-CAD/OGV.git

Go to the OGV app directory
$ cd /path/to/clone/OGV-Meteor/OGV

Run meteor using the following command
$ $HOME/meteor/meteor

Keep OGV running on a server[edit]

If you are working on a cloud server and want OGV to keep running, even if you close the connection, you can do so by using tmux.

Install tmux by
$ sudo pkg install tmux

Start tmux session by
$ tmux

Run meteor inside tmux session in the usual way. Get out of the session using Ctrl + b and then press the key D on keyboard to detach from that session. Now you can safely log out and it won't end the meteor process you started inside tmux session.