Yes! That'd be awesome. Go build that :)
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:35, Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> wrote: > Well something like: > > $ npm install -g node-gyp > $ > $ cd my-addon > $ node-gyp configure (generate the Makefile/VC project in cwd from gyp) > $ node-gyp build (do the actual build, either with Make or msbuild, > depending on the platform) > > Then you would have either "out/Debug/bindings.node" or > "out/Release/bindings.node" depending on the build type. We could have > `node-gyp configure --debug` make a Debug build and then default to a > Release build, kinda like how Node does it in its configure/Makefile. > > That would normalize the commands needed for building on the various > platforms, which is a big step. node-gyp should have the ability to > select/install header files from different versions of Node, as well as > download precompiled node.lib files for Windows (`node-waf configure > --target=0.6.x` maybe). > > I'm not sure what else it would need off the top of my head. Thoughts? > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > -- > 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 -- 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
