I added skeletal openhospital-server and openhospital-client ports to my
WIP collection:
https://github.com/outpaddling/freebsd-ports-wip
The download and dependencies should be mostly correct, but they need
someone to figure out exactly what to patch and install in order for OH
to function out-of-the-box.
On 4/16/25 14:23, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Am 2025-04-16 19:28, schrieb Katherine Mcmillan:
Hello all,
I want to run Open Hospital on FreeBSD. It currently runs well on
several Linux distros, but I want it to run on FreeBSD, and it is
missing 6 dependencies (I could list those but I think that members of
this community can discover those quickly on their own if
interested). I thought that I could take this on as a sort of
"introduction to porting" project, even for GSoC, but I am really not
confident in my ability to correct even one missing dependency, let
alone six. I know that extra care/caution is needed as it is a tool
for healthcare.
Are there any community members that could provide a consulting quote
for a project like that?
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.
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.
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).
If you have some more questions or stumble upon some specific issues
while trying one of the scenarios above, feel free to ask here. This
case looks simple enough to get this working by simply downloading the
linux version and giving it a try (you need to have someone who is able
to install a DB server and create the initial DB from the OH SQL files;
if you need someone doing this for you, any local IT student should be
able to handle that with the FreeBSD handbook and the info which is in
the OH docs... on an existing FreeBSD system for an IT student with
experience maybe a 1-2h task, for one without experience maybe a 1-2 day
task).
Bye,
Alexander.
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