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Bear on BSD

Bear runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD with the same defaults as Linux: preload is the default interception method (see how Bear works and Configure Bear), and it cannot see into a statically linked build tool. What differs is packaging and the default compiler and linker names.

cc and c++ mean Clang here

On FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD (and on macOS), the base system's cc/c++ is Clang, not GCC as on most Linux distributions. Bear resolves this by probing --version; no configuration is needed for the common case. See Supported compilers to override when the probe cannot classify a compiler.

Installing

FreeBSD packages Bear (pkg install bear). On OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD, build from source per INSTALL.md; check your ports/pkgsrc tree first.

Related: how Bear works for the preload mechanism, Troubleshooting for output that comes out wrong, and the Recipes index for other tasks.