Node.js for Raspberry Pi

README.md

Node.js for Raspberry Pi

This is a work in progress - it may not work!

Pre-built binaries

Raspbian (hard-float)

v0.8.6-pre (adammw/node@3a42578d477249cc8851cd76cfb4fa4cb88ab0a0)

• node_ssl (with SSL support)
• node
• node_g

Compiling Node.js

Cross-compiling on Linux

1. Download pre-compiled cross-compilers from raspberrypi/tools, ensure to get the correct one for your system (e.g. use the hardfp version for Raspbian)
2. Install the compilers in your PATH by editing your .profile file, ensuring to add the /tools/arm-bcm2708/arm-bcm2708-linux-gnueabi/bin directory.
3. Download this cross-compile helper script
4. Download the version of node.js source code you want or clone the git repository.
5. Apply this patch (may or may not be required depending if this is fixed upstream or not)
6. Run the cross-compiler helper script, and if compiling for a soft float system, use the HOST envrionmental variable to set the correct HOST prefix, e.g. :

HOST=arm-bcm2708-linux-gnueabi ~/crosscompile.sh

7. If you are compiling Node.js 0.8.4 or lower, set the following exports:

export GYP_DEFINES="armv7=0"
export CCFLAGS='-march=armv6'
export CXXFLAGS='-march=armv6'

8. Run configure:

./configure --without-snapshot

9. Run make

make

10. Copy the node executable to the Raspberry Pi using scp

scp node raspbian:~/bin/node

Native Compile

Be warned: this will take forever.

1. Download the version of node.js source code you want or clone the git repository.
2. Apply this patch (may or may not be required depending if this is fixed upstream or not)
3. Run configure:

./configure --without-snapshot

4. Run make and make install

make
make install

node.bin

node_g.bin

node_ssl.bin