Cross-compiling Node.js for ARM6 (Raspberry Pi)
I'm trying to get node.js v0.7.9 to compile for the raspberry pi, but as node and v8 are quite large, I'm hoping to be able to cross-compile on another more powerful PC. I'm using the linux-x86 arm-bcm2708-linux-gnueabi toolchain from https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools and have used them to successfully build other executables for the system. I ended up setting the CC,CXX,CPP,STRIP,OBJCOPY,etc. variables to the toolchain equivalents in the environmental variables and ran configure with: ./configure --dest-cpu=arm --without-snapshot to get the final executable. Copying it over to the system and running it however produces the following error:
Extension or internal compilation error at line 0.
Segmentation fault
However, the segmentation fault doesn't happen for any of the non-javascript tasks like node --version and node --help. Are there any CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS I might be missing causing this problem? Bit confused....
Answer
NodeJS is available pre-compiled for a few Linux distributions: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager
Since NodeJS is still in testing phase for Debian, in order to install NodeJS on my Raspberry Pi under Debian wheezy, I do:
sudo su
echo deb ftp://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ sid main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sid.list
apt-get update
apt-get install nodejs
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sid.list
apt-get update
exit
NodeJS works very fine and stable on my Raspberry Pi.