Bevy on NetBSD

[0323pin]

Hi,

I was asked to check if Bevy would work on NetBSD.

It compiles just fine but, when running any of the test examples, I get:

2025-11-13T07:34:15.222336Z  WARN winit::platform_impl::linux::x11::xdisplay: error setting XSETTINGS; Xft options won't reload automatically

thread 'main' (5349) panicked at /home/pin/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/wgpu-26.0.1/src/api/instance.rs:115:13:
No wgpu backend feature that is implemented for the target platform was enabled. See `wgpu::Instance::enabled_backend_features()` for more information.
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Any hints?
Thank you!

[SludgePhD]

wgpu does not seem to support NetBSD, but it does have support for FreeBSD.

You might be able to get it to work by adding NetBSD to the dependency specifications in wgpu-core/Cargo.toml and wgpu-core/platform-deps/windows-linux-android/Cargo.toml (and any other places that mention FreeBSD or Linux).

[0323pin]

@SludgePhD Thanks! To be honest, I didn't think of looking into it because, we have several packages on NetBSD that use wgpu and so far I hadn't encounter this problem. Some examples are simp, inlyne and wezterm.

But, now that you have mentioned, this is actually the case 😞
I'll see if I can patch in support and test the result. Thanks!

[0323pin]

gfx-rs/wgpu#8541