Node.js 0.8.15 already compiled package

[Russianator]

Hi guys,

I've shared a link to download my .tgz of the node-0.8.15 source, compiled on my model B 512MB Raspberry Pi.

You can use this to save yourself having to cross-compile or waiting the 2 odd hours it takes to compile it on your Raspberry Pi.

Simply download, untar, enter the directory and run 'make install'.

LINK: http://goo.gl/ohPDi

I'll try and keep this collection up to date as more versions are released. I'm trying to keep it to the current release version.

[PherricOxide]

When I ran 'make install' it attempted rebuild the binaries, maybe because the configuration options you used to build were different? Anyway, as a quick fix for other people that have the same problem just open the Makefile and change,

42 install: all
43 $(PYTHON) tools/install.py $@ $(DESTDIR)

To,

42 install:
43 $(PYTHON) tools/install.py $@ $(DESTDIR)

To make sure it doesn't try and rebuild everything before installing.

[Russianator]

Ah, nice one.

I'll make this change and re-up the file.

[Russianator]

Source build now upped with the fix posted by PherricOxide.

Anyone else who has trouble with the build let me know.

[ejeklint]

Very nice, thanks for sharing this!

[greenicicle]

Thanks for sharing, works perfectly.

[ejeklint]

Here is my recently compiled 0.8.16, built on latest Raspbian Wheezy, 2012-12-16:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/sh3f72vtqcpekv9/index.html

Just

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sudo make install

. First one to try it out gets the honour of testing that my upload is correct.

[cashmore1990]

Currently running make install so update to come on if that file works shortly!

[cashmore1990]

Okay...for anyone else interested the node installation listed above worked perfectly on the latest Wheezy image for the RPI

Thanks for supplying this!

[nonlinearmind]

Thanks for posting this! My own compiles kept quiting after an hour!

[mintsource]

thanks very much for this... really want to try it out. does anyone have any feedback on how node.js performs on the pi?

[Heater]

Re: Node.js performance.

Just so happens that today I was running up some simple tests on an ARM board. Not a Pi, perhaps I'll have time to repeat the tests there tomorrow.

Anyway what I have is a simple client program that connects via a websocket to a websocket server running on my PC. It then starts sending JSON data to the server.

I have implemented this in node.js and Go for comparisons sake.

The surprising result is that the node.js version is 5 times faster than the Go.

Surprising because JS is interpreted and Go is compiled.

Well, perhaps not such a surprise as JSON is built into JavaScript .

Looks like if you want to do that kind of thing node.js is a simple and speedy choice.

[mintsource]

thanks for the info. i think node.js on these kind of devices could have some interesting uses. i'm not too concerned about the number of concurrent requests it can handle for what i want to use it for, more the throughput time to handle a realistic application request.. a lightweight low cost node server has potential for all sorts of nice applications i don't have time to build

[mintsource]

Russianator - thank you. package installed and "Hello World" server working.. tomorrow hopefully i'll get the chance to run some test node apps on there. can post some benchmarks if anyones interested.

[utp]

Thanks, would like to report the "sudo make install" works on my pi (took a while to compile tho, but it sure work)

Great thanks!!!!!!!
(Next for me is to try npm serialport, would like to get this working on pi......)

[clint9090]

Quick question... will this work on arch linux?

Thanks!

[Elexy]

Thanks, works like a charm!

[inm]

Hate to bump something this old but I can't find what I need. Does anyone else have the precompiled Node files? I need them. Thanks!

[Heater]

inm,

I just install node version 0.10.9 on the Pi it works a treat. (I tried some 0.11.x versions but they gave me problems)

You can get it from here: http://nodejs.org/dist/

I download them with:

$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.9/

Unpack that with:

$ tar -xvzf node-v0.10.9-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

The executable is then in is then in node-v0.10.9-linux-arm-pi/bin

[ejeklint]

You really should get the latest version, 0.10.21 which contain an important security fix. From http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/

[Heater]

ejeklint,

Good point, thanks.

[ejeklint]

Forgot to mention my install "procedure":

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wget http://nodejs.org/dist/path_to_latest_version/node_version-arm-pi.tar.gz
tar xvfz node_version-arm-pi.tar.gz
cd node_version-arm-pi
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/

Voilá!