CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.js
user1733207
user1733207

Reputation: 11

Using Old Version of Node JS

Hi I have a Windows OS and I currently have the most up to date version of Node.JS running (which includes npm). I would really like build and compile 0.1.91 which can be found here http://nodejs.org/dist/. I'm extremely new to this and any all help would be greatly appreciated.

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josh3736
josh3736

Reputation: 145162

Node first supported native Windows builds in the .5 dev branch. To make it happen, they had to rewrite many internals from scratch – the platform compatibility layer now exists as libuv.

Before that, you had to build Node under Cygwin. I remember building .4 in Windows with Cygwin, and it was a complete pain. The GitHub wiki has since pulled down all Cygwin-related information since it's no longer relevant. (If you really want to see how Cygwin builds were done, I suppose you could clone the wiki's repo and go digging around. The information isn't available online anymore.)

Support for building on Windows with Cygwin wasn't added until 0.1.98, and support was dropped with .6. So, the specific version you're trying to build won't work.

At any rate, it's a very bad idea to run very old software, especially something like Node 0.1, which was still very early in its development. It's nearly guaranteed to be full of security holes.

Upvotes: 1

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