Working Node.js on Raspberry Pi

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These instructions should be deprecated at this point.

Start following https://github.com/TooTallNate/node/tree/pi for a more straightforward node installation on the pi.

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These instructions work for the Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (hard float), and include a working NPM:

1. Install Raspbian - http://www.raspbian.org/PiscesImages
2. sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential
3. Check out Node.js source (0.8.4)
4. Set up some variables:

    $ export GYP_DEFINES="armv7=0"
    $ export CXXFLAGS='-march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -DUSE_EABI_HARDFLOAT'
    $ export CCFLAGS='-march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -DUSE_EABI_HARDFLOAT'

5. Configure correctly:

    $ ./configure --shared-openssl --without-snapshot
    $ make
    $ make test
    $ make install

NOTE: some ssl related tests still have issues, so this is NOT a final fix.

Not working for me :-(
Fresh 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian, node-0.8.9.
At the end of make (no obvious errors), every test crashes and all binaries return Illegal instruction.

@TooTallNate has been working on a branch that makes things much cleaner:

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node/tree/pi

I followed these instructions and I also tried with node-v0.8.9 on raspbian. I also get the Illegal instruction error. I ran it through gdb and found a little more detail.

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x400d64c0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

I did a git clone git://github.com/TooTallNate/node.git
git checkout pi
./configure --shared-openssl --without-snapshot
make
make test

almost 19 minutes later I had all but 8 tests passed, and a 4 of those were timeouts a known issue with a slower system like the pi.

markdown got me ...

I followed these instructions and I also tried with node-v0.8.9 on raspbian. I also get the Illegal instruction error. I ran it through gdb and found a little more detail.

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x400d64c0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

I did a git clone git://github.com/TooTallNate/node.git
git checkout pi
./configure --shared-openssl --without-snapshot
make

then

make test
[18:44|% 100|+ 444|- 8]: Done

almost 19 minutes later I had all but 8 tests passed, and a 4 of those were timeouts a known issue with a slower system like the pi.