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+This is a very quick initial note about installing Shairport Sync on FreeBSD. Some manual installation is required.
+
+The build instrctions here install back ends of SNDIO (native to *BSD, AFAIK) and ALSA. ALSA is, or course, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, so it is not "native" to FreeBSD. It has, however, been ported, so it should work pretty well.
+
+This build was done on a default build of `FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9`.
+
+First, update everything:
+```
+# freebsd-update fetch
+# freebsd-update install
+```
+Next, install the `pkg` package manager and update its lists:
+
+```
+# pkg
+# pkg update
+```
+
+Now, install the ALSA and Avahi subsystems. Note: `avahi-app` is chosen because it doesn’t require X11 and `nss_mdns` allows FreeBSD
+to resolve mDNS-originated addresses. Thanks to [reidransom](https://gist.github.com/reidransom/6033227) for this:
+
+```
+# pkg install alsa-utils avahi-app nss_mdns
+```
+To enable these services to load automatically at startup, add these lines to `/etc/rc.conf`:
+```
+dbus_enable="YES"
+avahi_daemon_enable="YES"
+```
+Next, change the `hosts:` line in `/etc/nsswitch.conf` to
+```
+hosts: files dns mdns
+```
+Reboot for these changes to take effect.
+
+Next, install the packages that are needed for Shairport Sync to be downloaded and build successfully:
+```
+# pkg install git autotools pkgconf popt libconfig openssl sndio
+```
+
+Now, download Shairport Sync from GitHub and check out the `development` branch.
+```
+$ git clone https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync.git
+$ cd shairport-sync
+$ git checkout development
+```
+Next, configure the build and compile it:
+
+```
+$ autoreconf -i -f
+$ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" ./configure  --with-alsa --with-avahi --with-ssl=openssl --with-metadata
+$ make
+```
+
+After this, you're on your own – the `$ sudo make install` step does not work for FreeBSD. Maybe some day...
+
+To continue, you should create a configuration file at `/usr/local/etc/shairport-sync.conf`. Please see the sample configuration file for more details.
+