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Let us assume you are starting from a fresh system. Your first task should be to ensure you have some form of GUI
installed as you will need one to _run_ 86Box. In this case I suggest KDE as, on FreeBSD 14.3, it pulls in the Qt6 libraries, but you'll still need to run:
```
sudo pkg install `pkg search qt5 | egrep ^qt5 | cut -d' ' -f1`
```
This will pull in all of Qt5, which is currently needed for the build.
Next is to setup the dev environment -- you'll need `git` for pulling down the repo and `cmake` for configuring things, at a minimum:
`sudo pkg install cmake git`
Then you need to install the dependencies:
`sudo pkg install --quiet --yes sndfile rtmidi libslirp freetype2 devel/evdev-proto openal-soft fluidsynth SDL2`
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