FreeBSD and macOS support

[jj1bdx]

Is there any plan to support FreeBSD or macOS?

FYI, I've removed the Linux-dependent part and fix the Makefile for the FreeBSD libraries and the code seems to be working fine for FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE. Patch: jj1bdx@3aafc0a

[jj1bdx]

Update for macOS 10.13.5: you do not have to use FTDI Drivers. The macOS stock drivers will do better. Do not install either the VCP or D2XXHelper. If you install them, remove them. They are in /Library/Extensions.
For macOS 10.13.5: D2XXHelper from FTDI Driver page seems to be required to prevent loading the Virtual COM Port (VCP) driver. Patch: jj1bdx@0cd7e72

[jj1bdx]

I think the Linux-dependent code first should be rewritten to make this driver compatible with the other UNIX-based operating systems. OTOH, things look ok also on FreeBSD and macOS in the other parts of the infnoise driver software.

[manuel-domke]

See my latest comment in waywardgeek#59 for my plans to build this project cross-platform (using CMake).

Received lots of pull requests for Mac, FreeBSD and Windows and will try to include all of your work.
Thanks a lot!

It's also worth mentioning the latest pull request from @dylanmc in one of my other forks: manuel-domke#3

Sorry for the current mess.

[jj1bdx]

@manuel-domke FYI: I've made some repositories for mostly testing and debugging purpose for each OS of Linux (Ubuntu primarily), FreeBSD, and Windows as:

• https://github.com/jj1bdx/infnoise-linux/
• https://github.com/jj1bdx/infnoise-freebsd/ (Note that putting entropy into the kernel using random_harvest(9) requires a kernel driver on FreeBSD. See https://github.com/jj1bdx/freebsd-dev-trng/ for an experimental but fairly stable implementation of an interface driver.)
• https://github.com/jj1bdx/infnoise-windows/ (This repository is for rebuilding all tools by Visual Studio 2017)

You can freely include the code. I'll try to leave them public domain as possible, but some code might have to be MIT or BSD licensed later.

[jj1bdx]

Update for macOS 10.13.5: you do not have to use FTDI Drivers. The macOS stock drivers will do better. Do not install either the VCP or D2XXHelper. If you install them, remove them. They are in /Library/Extensions.