On 19/01/2026 22:07 EET Stuart Henderson via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On 2026-01-18, Joel Mawhorter via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
I'm writing to see if anyone has had success compiling Dovecot 2.4 on OpenBSD. I can't seem to find any documentation that lists prerequisites. At the moment, the 2.4.2 source tarball from the Dovecot site does not seem to compile on my OpenBSD 7.8 system and the error message is not very helpful. I'm unsure if this is just a problem of some required package not being installed. If anyone could point me to info to help move forward, I would appreciate that.
Even if the error message is not helpful to you, somebody else might be able to make more of it.
Some of the problems seen in 2.4.2 on openbsd:
- building test-regex fails, it expects "pkg-config --libs libpcre2-32" to return just libraries but on OpenBSD there's also -L/usr/local/lib
Hi!
I testbuilt dovecot on openbsd 7.7, and was able to fix some of the issues. I didn't run into the test-regex problem though. Please see
https://github.com/dovecot/core/compare/f8dcc0ddbf8772f89d4bb3650a95aa98ab3b...
Aki