On 4/16/25 14:23, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Am 2025-04-16 19:28, schrieb Katherine Mcmillan:
I had a quick look at it. OH is a java application. If I read it
correctly, the WEB-UI (which would be installed on a server) is a work
in progress. If I get it correctly (https://github.com/informatici/
openhospital-doc/blob/master/doc_admin/AdminManual.adoc <https://
github.com/informatici/openhospital-doc/blob/master/doc_admin/
AdminManual.adoc>) section 2.1), the GUI would be installed on a client
system (laptop or PC), and it would connect to a "simple" DB server (on
a server). They recommend MariaDB or MySQL. Both are available as
FreeBSD packages.
So for the "OH Client install" you would need one of the DBs installed
on a FreeBSD system (section 2.1.3, the OH linux or windows download
there is only necessary to get the SQL scripts which populate the DB
with all the tables, indexes, constraints and whatvever for the client
to connect to it), and if we assume a typical Windows client, the
windows version of OH which then connects to the FreeBSD DB server.
Nothing to port in this case to FreeBSD, as the "server side" of OH
seems to be the initial creation of the DB.
I think it would be useful to create a simple oh-server port that
installs the DB server as a dependency (maybe with port options to
choose between MariaDB and MySQL), and provides setup instructions via
pkg-message, maybe a simple setup script. Then in the future, people
can see that it's in the ports system, and just install it and follow
the instructions rather than spend time duplicating the effort Alex
invested to figure out what to do (or hunt down the archive of this
thread).
If you want to use FreeBSD on the client PCs/laptops to not have to pay
Windows licenses, there are two options. You install a suitable java
version as a FreeBSD package, and then download the OH linux versions
and use that. As OH is a java program, this should work, maybe you need
to adapt the oh.sh script. As you would need to setup FreeBSD with a
graphical desktop environment before that, the person doing that needs
some level of unix/FreeBSD knowledge anyway, and this amount of
knowledge may already be enough to handle an adaption. Or as a second
option, you take the linux download and make a FreeBSD package out of
it. The last may only need a dependency on java, I see no other
dependencies listed in the OH docs. Feel free to point out if I'm wrong,
I may have not looked at right places.
sysutils/desktop-installer will make the desktop setup easy. An
oh-client port would be convenient, and would soon find its way into the
GhostBSD ports snapshot as well, for non-gurus who want to run FreeBSD
with easier setup and maintenance.
To compile the java source code to a java program, more dependencies may
be needed than just java, but this doesn't seem necessary here (I have
more than one java program ported to the FreeBSD Ports Collection by
taking the linux downloads and simply adapting the start scripts to "the
FreeBSD way", no need to compile the java programs on FreeBSD).
Compiling java programs can be a challenge, so I usually take the easy
route if there's a jar file available as well. One could argue that
building from source is marginally more secure than downloading a jar
file, though.
Best,
Jason
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