# Latest OpenBSD status?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779 "2021-03-09T01:47:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@krsanky](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/krsanky)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779/1 "2021-03-09T01:47:44Z")
Hi!,
I have been trying to compile julia on openbsd, and it’s not working.
Before I dig into debugging I figured I’d ask if anyone has gotten recent julia to work on OpenBSD?
Thanks!,
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### Author:  [@Chen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chen)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779/2 "2021-03-11T21:48:15Z")
I don’t think julia can be compiled on Open or NetBSD yet. FreeBSD had it working. I don’t have the skills or the time at the moment, but if you do, the FreeBSD port may be a good starting point, if you’d like to port julia to OpenBSD.
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### Author:  [@krsanky](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/krsanky)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779/3 "2021-03-18T09:51:08Z")
Thanks for the response.
I’ve been meaning to learn OpenBSD packaging so I might give it a try.
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### Author:  [@Chen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chen)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779/4 "2021-03-19T07:57:08Z")
It’s nice that you’d like to create an OpenBSD port for Julia! Thank you for that!
I Googled around a little. Here you can see another effort to port Julia to OpenBSD: [Need help building Julia from source - DaemonForums](http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=69776)
I didn’t comment there, but one issue is that the other person was trying to build Julia using GCC. I think Julia has to be built using LLVM (and probably CLANG), from my memories of building Julia from source last year.
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### Author:  [@Oko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oko)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/latest-openbsd-status/56779/5 "2021-10-26T04:40:06Z")
Clang is just a front end for LLVM ☹ The default C language system compiler on most hardware platforms supported by OpenBSD is LLVM. The most recent OpenBSD release 7.0 uses LLVM/Clang 11.1.0.