This repository began as a GitHub fork of joyent/node. io.js contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an open governance model. We intend to land, with increasing regularity, releases which are compatible with the npm ecosystem that has been built to date for node.js.
Prerequisites (Unix only):
gccandg++4.8 or newer, orclangandclang++3.3 or newer- Python 2.6 or 2.7
- GNU Make 3.81 or newer
- libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make installIf your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make installPrerequisites (Windows only):
- Python 2.6 or 2.7
- Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Desktop, or
- Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
Windows:
vcbuild nosignYou can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from http://nodejs.org/download/. The Windows and OS X installers will prompt you for the location in which to install. The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory with:
tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gzOr system-wide with:
cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \
/path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gzUnix/Macintosh:
make testWindows:
vcbuild testmake docman doc/node.1Note: more docs, including how to reduce disk footprint, are on the wiki.
pkg-config --modversion icu-i18n && ./configure --with-intl=system-icuFirst: Unpack latest ICU
icu4c-##.#-src.tgz (or .zip)
as deps/icu (You'll have: deps/icu/source/...)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure --with-intl=full-icuWindows:
vcbuild full-icu