[REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

Can someone please build NodeJS for Maemo and put it in the repos. It allows Javascript to be executed as a general purpose programming language outside of the browser using the V8 engine.

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

knock knock
http://nodejs.org

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

You can try installing gcc/g++, make etc and compiling it yourself (or cross-compiling). Getting gcc & g++ installed is a bit of a pain, but there are some good guides on google.

You'll also need to (temporarily) increase your /tmp dir size or redirect TMPDIR for gcc - otherwise you'll run out of space.

I have a build running at the moment, it's been running for a couple of hours - fingers crossed it succeeds.

Cross-compiling is probably the way I'd go if I were to start again from scratch.

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

What way did you manage to find to install gcc/g++ that's actually painful? On the N900 (if you have the sdk repo added), and on most linuxes, "apt-get install gcc" and "apt-get install g++" works just fine? (Just swap in command for your system's package manager, if it's not apt). Cross-compiling, now THAT does get harder to set up.

Oh cool, I didn't know you could do that.

You are a very patient individual, apparently. I applaud you.

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

Gaah! really? That would have saved ~3 hours of my life.

I came across the following command, to (temporarily) increase /tmp: http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/more_tmp_memory/

BTW - compile broke part way through because it was using armv5 config. I used a Raspberry Pi config to set it to armv6 (armv7 wouldn't work for some reason...) - it's now trucking along again.

If it builds, maybe I can tar up the binary and post it somewhere...

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

Looks like binutils is b0rked (ld doesn't like sysroot option).. trying to compile binutils 2.20 with "--with-sysroot" options. Wish me luck....

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

So... it's kinda built - just fails creating some symlinks (st00pid me trying to build from sdcard...). There is a node binary under <node>/out/Release/node which happily returns a version number :-)

Copying to /opt and will try again - will hopefully have something soon.

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

ok, nodeJS is all built and able to serve up the hello world server on my n900 :-)

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

Just keep in mind, they're not optified, being meant for the SDK scratchbox environment, rather than the devices directly, so you have to manually optify them if you want to save some rootfs space.

I have scripts that automatically move all the significantly-sized files from them if you'd like. (although I think I have the standard 'include' directory symlinked to /opt by default as part of a different, stuff-that's-on-the-N900-by-default optification script)

Re: [REQUEST] NodeJS for Maemo
 

Hi, here is how I got NodeJS compiled: http://krispypen.github.com/blog/201...for-your-n900/