DuckDB Node.js Neo with FreeBSD bindings

[louwers]

Hello folks.

If you want to use DuckDB Neo on FreeBSD, I have published Node.js bindings for FreeBSD x64. Unfortunately you need to patch this file. Maybe at some point this implementation can be configured at runtime?

You can find the repository here, it's not on GitHub because GitHub Actions doesn't support FreeBSD. It uses the DuckDB build available as a port. This is 1.3.2 right now, but I can update it when it gets updated.

It's all a bit hacky, but it works and that's to be expected from a platform that does not have first-class support.

Instructions

Install @louwers/duckdb-node-bindings-freebsd-x64 and matching @duckdb/node-api version.

npm install @louwers/duckdb-node-bindings-freebsd-x64@1.3.2-r4
npm install @duckdb/node-api@1.3.2-alpha.26

NOTE: FreeBSD 15 is required

Now you have to patch duckdb.js:

case 'freebsd-x64':
  return require('@louwers/duckdb-node-bindings-freebsd-x64/duckdb.node');

If everything is well, running the following script:

import duckdb from '@duckdb/node-api';

console.log(duckdb.version());

Should result in:

node script.js
v1.3.2