Making WebRTC available for FreeBSD

[Joe Nosay]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Niklas Enbom <niklas.enbom at webrtc.org>wrote:

> I still don't get what you mean. WebRTC is a part of browsers (Chrome,
> Firefox) not the operating system. Are you looking for a browser that runs
> on freeBSD and supports WebRTC - or something else?
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> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Joe Nosay <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Joe Nosay <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Niklas Enbom <niklas.enbom at webrtc.org>wrote:
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>>>> Hey guys, not sure what this refers to. The G+ post talks about porting
>>>> the gtalk plugin to freeBSD. WebRTC is an effort in the opposite direction
>>>> (no plugins needed). Afaik there is a Chromium build for freeBSD that
>>>> should support WebRTC (unless it's disabled at build).
>>>>
>>>> Niklas
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>>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Joe Nosay <superbisquit at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>> https://plus.google.com/110946378055202199166/posts/8iTsSCatk4x
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>>>>> The process has been started :
>>>>> http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=44691
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>>>>> Dependencies needed- referenced in "howto" and webrtc dependencies:
>>>>> libbrlapi from brltty.
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>>>>>
>>>>> Benefits: Native client and sever side of WebRTC applications for
>>>>> FreeBSD and possibly other BSDs.
>>>>> Eliminated dependency for Linuixlator based applications thus cutting
>>>>> down on hardware resource use.
>>>>> Eliminated need for other simulated and emulated programs to run Skype
>>>>> or other voice-and-video binaries. I.e. Wine, VirtualBox, qemu, et cetera,
>>>>> et al.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since it is known that Sony's PS4 uses FreeBSD as the basis for its
>>>>> OS, WebRTC could be implemented as a native application on the
>>>>> platform/console thus allowing users to communicater in real time while
>>>>> gaming.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why am I proposing this?
>>>>> 1. Adrian Chadd asked on Google+ and nowhere else. I decided to bring
>>>>> his proposal to the public and attempt an initial starting phase.
>>>>> 2. Users would not be limited to having only a few selected operating
>>>>> systems at their disposal. Developers could easily communicate with each
>>>>> other.
>>>>> 3. Real time sharing/viewing of conventions. This would give the
>>>>> community another window into the development of FreeBSD.
>>>>> 4. Companies such as IxSystems and Sony would be able to contact
>>>>> develoers while simultaneously working on a FreeBSD/FreeBSD_based system.
>>>>> 5. FreeBSD developers would be able to give feedback on the
>>>>> development of WebRTC sources.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Being that I am limited on resources, is it possible that others could
>>>>> take over what was started?
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>>> How is it implemented at build time?
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>> The option is not available with make config on FreeBSD nor is brltty
>> available on FreeBSD. The gyp files do not include any FreeBSD specific
>> references.
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WebRTC will only work if it can be built natively on a system despite the
browser type. In trunk/build/ there are the following operating systems:
android, ios, linux, mac, win.

Also, the jingle protocol has not been ported to FreeBSD.
Are there any developers who use FreeBSD?

Anyway, I was hoping that maybe someone much better than me in/with
programming  and the FreeBSD community would see the benefits of bringing
this to FreeBSD and take over my efforts. My initial arguments for such are
in the first email of this thread.