The two main goals of this change are:
- To make it easier to build the Intl option using ICU (particularly,
using a newer ICU than v8/Chromium's version)
- To enable a much smaller ICU build with only English support The goal
here is to get node.js binaries built this way by default so that the
Intl API can be used. Additional data can be added at execution time
(see Readme and wiki)
More details are at https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/7719
In particular, this change adds the "--with-intl=" configure option to
provide more ways of building "Intl":
- "full-icu" picks up an ICU from deps/icu
- "small-icu" is similar, but builds only English
- "system-icu" uses pkg-config to find an installed ICU
- "none" does nothing (no Intl)
For Windows builds, the "full-icu" or "small-icu" options are added to
vcbuild.bat.
Note that the existing "--with-icu-path" option is not removed from
configure, but may not be used alongside the new option.
Wiki changes have already been made on
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation
and a new page created at
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Intl
(marked as provisional until this change lands.)
Summary of changes:
* README.md : doc updates
* .gitignore : added "deps/icu" as this is the location where ICU is
unpacked to.
* Makefile : added the tools/icu/* files to cpplint, but excluded a
problematic file.
* configure : added the "--with-intl" option mentioned above.
Calculate at config time the list of ICU source files to use and data
packaging options.
* node.gyp : add the new files src/node_i18n.cc/.h as well as ICU
linkage.
* src/node.cc : add call into
node::i18n::InitializeICUDirectory(icu_data_dir) as well as new
--icu-data-dir option and NODE_ICU_DATA env variable to configure ICU
data loading. This loading is only relevant in the "small"
configuration.
* src/node_i18n.cc : new source file for the above Initialize..
function, to setup ICU as needed.
* tools/icu : new directory with some tools needed for this build.
* tools/icu/icu-generic.gyp : new .gyp file that builds ICU in some new
ways, both on unix/mac and windows.
* tools/icu/icu-system.gyp : new .gyp file to build node against a
pkg-config detected ICU.
* tools/icu/icu_small.json : new config file for the "English-only" small
build.
* tools/icu/icutrim.py : new tool for trimming down ICU data. Reads the
above .json file.
* tools/icu/iculslocs.cc : new tool for repairing ICU data manifests
after trim operation.
* tools/icu/no-op.cc : dummy file to force .gyp into using a C++ linker.
* vcbuild.bat : added small-icu and full-icu options, to call into
configure.
* Fixed toolset dependencies, see
https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/7719#issuecomment-54641687
Note that because of a bug in gyp {CC,CXX}_host must also be set.
Otherwise gcc/g++ will be used by default for part of the build.
Reviewed-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Allow to create an executable with no external dynamic libraries, also the
ones from the system. This is somewhat dependent of the used C lib, for
example glibc has some internal dynamic libraries loaded by itself, but for
other ones like eglibc or dietlib, this would produce a true static linked
executable. This can be of interest for embebers or resource constraints
platforms, but the main reason for this is to allow to use a Javascript
file as Linux kernel 'init' on NodeOS.
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
According to V8 changelog, `armv7` config variable was replaced by
`arm_version`, with value either '7', '6' or 'default'.
Detect ARMv7 and ARMv6 CPUs and default to 'default'.
Signed-off-by: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
V8 seems to ignore the default value for want_separate_host_toolset and
would override it at build time. Instead always explicitly set the value.
Fixes #7833
Improve on commit b55c9d6 by not requiring that switches are comma
separated. This commit makes `./configure --v8-options="--foo --bar"`
work and takes special care to properly escape quotes in the options
string.
libuv gyp builds now require you to define the library disposition
(static or shared).
Also, libuv now supports vectored IO for file system reads and writes,
update to those function signatures
gyp by default now tries to process gyp files in parallel by using
python's multiprocessing module, but it has problems on oddball
platforms. We don't have many files or complex dependency chains that
would benefit from parallel processing so disable by deafult
fixes #6640
Adds a --with-icu-path= switch to the configure script. Requires that
the user checks out the copy of libicu that's bundled with chromium to
a fixed directory. It's still a little rough around the edges but it
works.
Fixes #6371.
This commit removes the simple/test-event-emitter-memory-leak test for
being unreliable with the new garbage collector: the memory pressure
exerted by the test case is too low for the garbage collector to kick
in. It can be made to work again by limiting the heap size with the
--max_old_space_size=x flag but that won't be very reliable across
platforms and architectures.
Upstream V8 as of commit v8/v8@4bc70e8 uses a fixed seed of 314159265
for hash tables unless instructed otherwise. Tell V8 to keep using a
random seed.
Profiling suggested that on Linux sometimes over 10% of CPU time was
being spent inside the systemtap probe entry points in the binding
layer, even when the process was not actively being traced with the
`stap` tool.
That's why this commit makes it possible to use the *_ENABLED() macros
and bail out early when we're not being traced, reducing the overhead
of unused probes to (almost) zero.
Said macros were already being generated by `dtrace -h` but were not
usable because they rely on external definitions. To remedy that, we
now generate the accompanying object files with `dtrace -G`.
This commit includes a change to libuv that has been landed upstream in
commit joyent/libuv@3c172ea.
No one in this day and age should be using SSLv2 so disable it by
default. You can re-enable it with `./configure --with-sslv2` but
there really should be no reason for that.
Alphabetical order should make it easier to find the switches you need
because we've got quite a lot of them now.
Keep --prefix at the top because that's arguably the one people will be
looking for most.
The previous commit removes our patch that builds V8 at -O2 rather
than -O3 so there is not much point in keeping the configure switch
around.
The reason it did so was to work around an assortment of compiler and
linker bugs. In particular, certain combinations of g++ and binutils
generate bad or no code when -ffunction-sections or -finline-functions
is enabled (which -O3 implicitly does.)
It was quite the problem back in the day because everyone and his dog
built from source. Now that we have prebuilt binaries and packages
available, there is no longer a pressing need to be so accommodating.
If you experience spurious (or possibly not so spurious) segmentation
faults after this commit, you need to upgrade your compiler/linker
toolchain.
Several people have reported cross-compiling build breakage, see e.g.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/k8HzqpqPkJQ
Message-Id: <823c3bd1-e104-4409-86ad-0ab6de936fec@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [nodejs] nodejs 0.10.12 and Angstrom issues
This reverts commit acbdabb74b.
Resolves minor discrepancies between android and standard POSIX systems.
In addition, some configure parameters were added, and a helper-script
for android configuration. Ideally, this script should be merged into
the standard configure script.
To build for android, source the android-configure script with an NDK
path:
source ./android-configure ~/android-ndk-r8d
This will create an android standalone toolchain and export the
necessary environment parameters.
After that, build as normal:
make -j8
After the build, you should now have android-compatible NodeJS binaries.
In case of cross-compilation host_arch_cc() function could return
target arch if CC was set to target arch compiler. Host arch
compiler should always be used in this case. This was broken
by commit 707863c.
Consider a user on his Mac, who wants to cross-compile for his Linux ARM device:
./configure --dest-cpu=arm --dest-os=linux
Before this patch, for example, DTrace probes would incorrectly attempt to be
enabled because the configure script is running on a MacOS machine, even though
we're trying to compile a binary for `linux`.
With this patch, the `--dest-os` flag is respected throughout the configure
script, thus leaving DTrace probes disabled in this cross-compiling scenario.
V8 was upgraded to 3.18 in commit 9f68226. The knobs that control the
ARM build have changed in a number of ways. This commit patches the
configure script to reflect that. Should fix the Raspberry Pi build.
Fixes #5329.
When building custom `node` versions (e.g., floating features/fixes from
different versions) it's often useful to specify a custom tag which
easily identifies build when invoking `node -v`.
Introduce a way to specify this tag in `node_version.h` file or by
running `./configure --tag="<tag>"`. Insert it right after the patch
version (and before `-pre`, if build is not a release).
Closes #4452.
