Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.16.0/node-v18.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6b46d9652b823848d8b832be5b4f5df0
Download size: 39 MB
Estimated disk space required: 901 MB (add 30 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 16 SBU (add 3.3 SBU for tests: both using parallelism=4 and 4 CPUs online, parts of the tests will use all online CPUs)
c-ares-1.19.1, ICU-73.1, libuv-1.45.0, and nghttp2-1.53.0
http-parser and npm (an internal copy of npm will be installed if not present)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nodejs
Build Node.js by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--shared-cares \
--shared-libuv \
--shared-openssl \
--shared-nghttp2 \
--shared-zlib \
--with-intl=system-icu &&
make
To test the results, issue: make test-only. Two tests (of 3800 tests), test-net-socket-connect-without-cb and i test-tcp-wrap-listen, are known to fail.
Now, as the root user:
make install && ln -sf node /usr/share/doc/node-18.16.0
--with-intl=system-icu: use
the system version of icu. Other
values are full-icu (to build a local,
full icu library) and small-icu (to build a local, minimal icu library).
--shared-{cares,libuv,nghttp2,openssl,zlib}:
use the system installed libraries instead of local copies.
--without-npm: do not build
npm (use if you'd like to build a
separate npm later).
--shared-http-parser: use the system
installed library instead of a local copy.