Let's start with: "I already wrote a little binding C++ thing for node, and now I want to compile a .node file." Start with the example in node's test/addons/hello-world.
Right now, that is unnecessarily difficult, and I believe it's a good sized problem to tackle. How would you make it trivial to do that? On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 00:58, Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> wrote: > The compiler used *may* be another paramater to consider, but I haven't ran > into any problems in use with node-bindings yet. One issue getting the > compiler name is that it's not available in node anywhere, so getting that > value at runtime would be hard/impossible. > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 02/01/2012 04:52 PM, Isaac Schlueter wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 16:15, Nathan Rajlich<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Devs have to now compile for each supported platform and architecture >>>> before >>>> publishing >>> >>> >>> Problem 1 is indeed a problem, but it can be solved in 2 ways. >>> >>> 1. If you have the toolchain installed, you'll be able to build at >>> install time, just like you do today with node-waf, so there's a >>> fallback. >>> 2. We'll build some cloudy buildbot CI stuff to compile all the things. >>> >>> Node-bindings could definitely be handy. >> >> >> There is no stable C++ ABI, so you will also have to add the compiler >> version as another argument to that list of targets. Some compilers do try >> to do versioning with mapfiles, but it is rarely used. The worst thing that >> can happen is having a version of node built with one version of a compiler >> and an addon with another. >> >> Robert > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
