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Re: Can you compile node.js under cygwin?
- From: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 10:09:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: Can you compile node.js under cygwin?
- References: <CAEF1h+UX2sqQ2MxbN+wy-dLZQ479JxavVunTD=HYpeSUERRzfQ@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: moss at cs dot umass dot edu
On 10/25/2019 1:37 PM, Cary Lewis wrote:
I tried to clone the repo, and after running configure, then make I got
this error:
make -C out BUILDTYPE=Release V=0
touch 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/clewis/node/out/Release/lib.host:/home/clewis/node/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../.; mkdir -p tools/msvs/genfiles; "mc
src/res/node_etw_provider.man -h tools/msvs/genfiles -r tools/msvs/genfiles"
/bin/sh: mc src/res/node_etw_provider.man -h tools/msvs/genfiles -r
tools/msvs/genfiles: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [node_etw.target.mk:17:
12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate] Error 127
rm 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate
make: *** [Makefile:101: node] Error 2
This program's configure is not cygwin-aware, apparently. It sees something
that looks like Windows and it's heading toward msvs (Microsoft Visual Studio),
a Windows program, not a cygwin program.
I tried configure --dest-os=linux, and that mostly worked, but assumes ELF
binaries are being used, but cygwin uses PE, not ELF (so that Windows can
run the binaries linked with the cygwin library / runtime). So the openssl
assembly files failed. Using configure --dest-os=linux --openssl-no-asm got
past that problem but fails when trying to find /usr/include/sys/syscall.h,
someting not provided under cygwin.
I also tried not giving --dest-os (and it then wants to do the msvs stuff,
i.e., it treats it as Windows) and --dest-os=posix (which is what uname -a
reports under modern cygwin) to no avail.
So IMO node's configure needs to be adjusted, but how to do that correctly
is beyond my knowledge or the time I can invest.
Eliot Moss
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