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+layout: post
+title: "Elm on FreeBSD"
+date: 2019-05-11
+comments: true
+tags: freebsd, elm, linux
+---
+
+[Elm](https://elm-lang.org/) is a purely functional, strongly typed language for
+building web-apps. I recently started playing with elm[^1] and so far love it!
+
+There was a small bit of trouble though, Elm doesnt officially support
+FreeBSD. The compiler is written in Haskell and
+[couple](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/running-elm-on-freebsd/1613)
+of
+[people](https://gist.github.com/vyuh/ff05a20cb0f408e1fd0ac8c23d06025b)
+have made it work on freebsd by compiling from source.
+
+That's where I started, and soon gave up because compiling `elm 0.19`
+needs `ghc-8.2.2`. That particular ghc version is no longer in binary
+packages. Stack ghcs seems to be still [broken on
+FreeBSD](https://blog.dbalan.in/blog/2019/01/08/recurse-center-day-%23-2/index.html)
+to try that route. All of the solutions I encountered builds ghc from
+source and that was going take an eternity on my thinkpad.
+
+Luckily elm project provides binaries for Linux - and FreeBSD
+[can pretend to be
+linux](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html) pretty
+well. Thats what I ended up doing!
+
+1. Load the kernel module for linux emulation.
+
+```
+kldload linux64.ko
+```
+
+2. Get elm [linux binary from github](https://github.com/elm/compiler/releases).
+
+```
+wget \
+ https://github.com/elm/compiler/releases/download/0.19.0/binaries-for-linux.tar.gz
+tar xf binaries-for-linux.tar.gz
+```
+
+3. Then [brand the ELF
+   binary](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=brandelf&sektion=1&manpath=freebsd-release-ports)
+   as type `Linux`. Kernel uses this information check decide runtime
+   to use, in our case Linux emulation.
+
+```
+brandelf -t Linux ./elm
+```
+
+..and there we have it
+```
+$ file elm
+elm: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, with debug_info, not stripped
+
+$ ./elm
+Hi, thank you for trying out Elm 0.19.0. I hope you like it!
+...
+```
+
+[^1]: Shout-out to Tenor and Liz for introducing me to Elm.