Installation Instructions for FreeBSD

Building from source

Building Geth (command line client)

Clone the repository to a directory of your choosing:

git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

Building geth requires some external libraries to be installed:

• GMP
• Go

pkg install gmp go

If your golang version is >= 1.5, build the geth program using the following command.

cd go-ethereum
make geth

If your golang version is < 1.5 (quarterly packages, for example), use the following command instead.

cd go-ethereum
CC=clang make geth

You can now run build/bin/geth to start your node.