From a9dcf6f0cef58d7d21205fc18302571f3d39d4e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jagannath Bhat Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:01:18 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve BUILDING.md PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23976 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt Reviewed-By: Richard Lau Reviewed-By: James M Snell Reviewed-By: Rich Trott --- BUILDING.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 4beba6ea81715e..efe39e656b383a 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ platforms in production. by Joyent. SmartOS images >= 16.4 are not supported because GCC 4.8 runtime libraries are not available in their pkgsrc repository -2: Tier 1 support for building on Windows is only on 64 bit - hosts. Support is experimental for 32 bit hosts. +2: Tier 1 support for building on Windows is only on 64-bit + hosts. Support is experimental for 32-bit hosts. 3: On Windows, running Node.js in Windows terminal emulators like `mintty` requires the usage of [winpty](https://github.com/rprichard/winpty) @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ platforms in production. ### Supported toolchains -Depending on host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary. +Depending on the host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary. #### Unix @@ -126,11 +126,11 @@ Depending on host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary. #### Windows -* Visual Studio 2017 with the Windows 10 SDK on a 64 bit host. +* Visual Studio 2017 with the Windows 10 SDK on a 64-bit host. #### OpenSSL asm support -OpenSSL-1.1.0 requires the following asssembler version for use of asm +OpenSSL-1.1.0 requires the following assembler version for use of asm support on x86_64 and ia32. * gas (GNU assembler) version 2.23 or higher @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ These core dumps are useful for debugging when provided with the corresponding original debug binary and system information. Reading the core dump requires `gdb` built on the same platform the core dump -was captured on (i.e. 64 bit `gdb` for `node` built on a 64 bit system, Linux +was captured on (i.e. 64-bit `gdb` for `node` built on a 64-bit system, Linux `gdb` for `node` built on Linux) otherwise you will get errors like `not in executable format: File format not recognized`. @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ $ ./configure --without-intl $ pkg-config --modversion icu-i18n && ./configure --with-intl=system-icu ``` -If you are cross compiling, your `pkg-config` must be able to supply a path +If you are cross-compiling, your `pkg-config` must be able to supply a path that works for both your host and target environments. #### Build with a specific ICU: @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ This version of Node.js does not support FIPS. ## Building Node.js with external core modules It is possible to specify one or more JavaScript text files to be bundled in -the binary as builtin modules when building Node.js. +the binary as built-in modules when building Node.js. ### Unix/macOS