> On 19/01/2026 22:07 EET Stuart Henderson via dovecot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 2026-01-18, Joel Mawhorter via dovecot <[email protected]> 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/f8dcc0ddbf8772f89d4bb3650a95aa98ab3b0907%5E...1c6b67195d279836d94e141215c626c20af93af6.patch

Aki

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