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Nate
Nate

Reputation: 901

Do node.js binaries exist for the ARMv7 hard-float processor architecture?

Do Node.js binaries exist for the ARMv7 hard float instruction set? This is a popular platform due to Raspberry Pi, but I'm using an extremely stripped down version of embedded linux running on a hardware evaluation board. Native compilation is not possible due to Node's Python dependencies during compilation. Some possibly helpful information is as follows:

Processor: i.MX537

Evaluation board: http://www.tq-group.com/en/products/industry-pcs/prod/embedded-modul-tqma53/extb/Main/productdetail/

Another interesting problem/challenge is the embedded linux that comes as a base support package for the hardware doesn't have a typical package manager. It uses opkg, and I'm unable to leverage any of the Raspberry Pi or Arch Linux packages.

I'm interested in node binaries because I'm trying to fast-track an application demo and our hardware design will require a kernel rebuild anyhow, so I don't want to spend lots of time setting up cross-compilation toolchains if any stable binaries exist.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1364

Answers (1)

Sean Lynch
Sean Lynch

Reputation: 6487

While I've not seen raw binaries for Node (I've used Nodesource's packages before), io.js provides binaries for armv7. Direct link to the io.js 1.4.3 armv7 release.

Upvotes: 1

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