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No Tailwind binary for FreeBSD
Hello,
I’m trying to build a basic Phoenix web-app, and I’d like to use Tailwind.
However, when I launch mix phx.server, I get an error:
** (RuntimeError) The tailwind binary couldn’t be found at: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/download/v4.1.12/tailwindcss-freebsd-x64
sure enough, the Tailwind Releases Page has no release for FreeBSD-x64.
How can I solve this? Is there a way to get a working Tailwind binary (building it from source maybe?) and tell Phoenix to use that instead?
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Schultzer
IMO the best path would be to kick out tailwind and just ship with modern CSS with AI today there is no excuses left for having to pull in a framework that is not portable. Not sure if tailwind’s goal is even to be portable everywhere.
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garrison
Schultzer
krasenyp
The situation is awful. The FreeBSD package expects an environment variable to the Node installation directory. It’s not documented at all. I had to look into the code to find out, it just errored out.
These problems motivate me to get rid of Tailwind altogether.
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adamwight
Okay, in my case the missing piece was a small back-compatibility package which allows fbsd 15 to run with older dynamically-linked binaries:
pkg install misc/compat14x
If anyone else needs the standalone binary for fbsd, the instructions in the Tailwind readme are still correct:
mix tailwind.install https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/pub/tailwind/v3.4.17/tailwindcss-freebsd-x64
Works well! Although I usually develop on linux and only run freebsd for production, I also use “mix release” which needs to be run in a production-line environment and it makes sense that tailwind assets.deploy would be included in that pipeline. I’ll propose small changes to the glue library to help others running into this.
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