Sadly, as I discovered today, the FreeBSD port is incomplete.
First up, it doesn't create the fdb.cluster file. I reverse engineered that logic out of the Mac OS packaging script, which wasn't a big deal. Once I created the file I was able to start it up and connect to it with fdbcli.
Second, the Python bindings do not work on FreeBSD. Trying to set the API version (the first step in calling the API) gives an error specifically saying they're not supported on FreeBSD.
Still though, for something that was released two weeks ago to be already ported to FreeBSD is pretty impressive!
There has been a more complete pull request [1],[2] back to the main project repository which solves some of these problems, and should ultimately result in the (FreeBSD) port being fairly straightforward.
First up, it doesn't create the fdb.cluster file. I reverse engineered that logic out of the Mac OS packaging script, which wasn't a big deal. Once I created the file I was able to start it up and connect to it with fdbcli.
Second, the Python bindings do not work on FreeBSD. Trying to set the API version (the first step in calling the API) gives an error specifically saying they're not supported on FreeBSD.
Still though, for something that was released two weeks ago to be already ported to FreeBSD is pretty impressive!