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Building FreeNAS

To build the system (experts only):

Requirements:

Your build environment must be FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE (building on FreeBSD 10 or 11 is not supported at this time).
an amd64 capable processor. 8GB of memory, or an equal/greater amount of swap space, is also required
You will need the following ports/packages when compiling anything FreeNAS-related:
- ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel
- devel/git
- sysutils/cdrtools
- archivers/pxz
- lang/python (2.7 or later, with THREADS support)
- emulators/virtualbox-ose
- sysutils/grub2-pcbsd
- sysutils/xorriso (and all the dependencies that these ports/pkgs install, of course)

Building the System Quickstart Flow:

Checking out the code from git:

% cd /path/to/your-build-filesystem
% git clone git://github.com/freenas/freenas.git
% cd freenas

Build it

% make git-external
% make checkout
% make release

Update the source tree, to pull in new source code changes

% make update

This will also fetch TrueOS and ports for the build from github.

The End Result:

If your build completes successfully, you'll have 64 bit release products in the release_stage directory. You will also have a tarball in your build directory containing the entire release for easy transport.

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