Re: Open Hospital on FreeBSD

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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