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Cross-compiling Node.js for ARM6 (Raspberry Pi)

Asked 2012-06-14T17:49:06.487
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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....

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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.

answered 2012-06-21T21:29:34.320

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