Compile Node.js v0.4 for Windows (32-bit) using Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64)

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HOWTO: Compile Node.js v0.4 for Windows (32-bit) using Ubuntu 11.04 (x86_64)

1. Install mingw32 compilation tools

   sudo apt-get install mingw32

2. Download and extract latest pthreads-win32 (pthreads-w32-2---release.tar.gz)

   wget -o - ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release.tar.gz | tar xfz

3. Compile pthreads dll and library

   cd pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release/ make GC CROSS=i586-mingw32msvc-

4. Create a mingw32 directory to hold our stuff

   mkdir -p $HOME/mingw32/include mkdir -p $HOME/mingw32/lib

5. Copy libpthreadGC.a & pthreadGC.dll to $HOME/mingw32/lib

   cp pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release/libpthreadGC.a $HOME/mingw32/lib/ cp pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release/pthreadGC.dll $HOME/mingw32/lib/

6. Copy headers

   cp pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release/*.h $HOME/mingw32/include/

7. Make symlinks to work with -lpthread and -lpthread.dll

   ln -s libpthreadGC2.a $HOME/mingw32/lib/libpthread.a ln -s libpthread.a $HOME/mingw32/lib/libpthread.dll.a ln -s pthreadGC.dll $HOME/mingw32/lib/pthread.dll

8. Checkout node (v0.4)

   git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git git checkout v0.4 #OPTIONAL: Use tab completion to find the latest stable branch

9. Apply patches to fix (#1264, #1265, #1266)

10. Download helper script

    wget https://gist.github.com/raw/1062306/mingw32-node-configure chmod +x mingw32-node-configure

11. Configure with helper script

    ./mingw32-node-configure

12. Compile node and dependincies

    make

node.exe

node_g.exe

pthreadGC2.dll