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.
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.