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d512
d512

Reputation: 34233

Node and CPU architecture

I have a node app that is going to run on a small touch screen device that has an ARM CPU. The app itself is pretty simple. I reads data from syslog and sends an ipc message to another process if it finds a log entry with some specific data.

My concern is whether or not there will be any issues with installing the npm dependencies on a build machine which is running on a different architecture and then copying it onto the ARM device. The build machine is likely to be a 64 bit Mac or Linux box.

The app seems to work fine when I run npm install on my mac and then copy the resulting node_modules folder onto the ARM device. However, I had written electron apps for this same ARM device that required us to use electron-packager with a target architecture of

--platform=linux --arch=armv7l

for it to run. Simply installing the node_modules on a mac then copying them over did not work in that case.

So what is the difference? Is it just the use of electron itself that requires the platform specific build or is it something else I might run into with this new app I'm writing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2124

Answers (1)

arlac77
arlac77

Reputation: 81

You can find platform specific file by executing:

find node_modules -name "*.node" |xargs file

Upvotes: 1

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