Am 02.07.2014 um 20:31 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>:
> > On Jun 29, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Tomás Aparicio wrote: > >> Some users asked me about a way to create fully self-contained nar archives >> that do not requires that node or nar must be already installed in the >> system in order to run or extract an application >> >> I've finally decided to provide support to this feature. From 0.3.0 version >> you can create executable binary-like nar archives that do not have external >> dependencies. node binary and nar package are now embedded >> >> $ nar create --executable >>> It generates server-0.1.0.nar, for example >> >> Then you can distribute your archive into a fresh server (without node >> installed) and simply run >> $ chmod +x server-0.1.0.nar >> $ ./server-0.1.0.nar run --args-start='--port 8080' >> >> $ npm install -g nar >> >> I hope this will be useful > > Presumably this executable is only usable on a single > platform/OS/architecture? Is that the same platform/OS/architecture on which > it was created? For example, executable archives made on 64-bit Intel Mac OS > X can only be run on 64-bit Intel Mac OS X, and executable archives created > on 32-bit Intel Gentoo Linux can only be run on 32-bit Intel Gentoo Linux? Very surely. At least the embedded nodejs is. >From what I can see, this sounds like the good old "shar". It was a way to >archieve files into a shell script, and then extract them from themselves. >Maybe I am getting soemthing wrong, but it was similar for sure. You can, however, create an automation. Lets say, a tool like node-gyp, just for nar: $ nar-maker ./myfolder -- Created: server-0.3.0-win32.nar -- Created: server-0.3.0-linux64.nar -- Created: server-0.3.0-linux32.nar -- Created: server-0.3.0-macosx64.nar How this would work? The tool would've been downloading the different nodejs executables - note, only the executables - and just packaged the nar archives with the correct binary. That, would at least solve this little issue. You can't make one package for all systems, sadly. Windows, Linux and Mac use far too different binary file layouts...just look at developers ranting about dynamic libraries for windows, where you have to add an extra macro across the whole of your project, just ot export the functions. XD -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/E0E8D0C9-ADE4-49EF-9410-6ECED47682BE%40googlemail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
