Question

Background:

I originally compiled node with no issues on Mac OS Lion, with the standard compile procedure, but when calling process.arch noticed it was returning ia32. I can only assume the default build configuration is for a 32-bit architecture.

Question:

When calling the --dest-cpu=x64 option, the configure output shows:

{ 'target_defaults': { 'cflags': [],
                   'defines': [],
                   'include_dirs': [],
                   'libraries': ['-lz']},
'variables': { 'host_arch': 'ia32',
             'node_debug': 'false',
             'node_install_npm': 'true',
             'node_prefix': '/usr/local',
             'node_shared_cares': 'false',
             'node_shared_v8': 'false',
             'node_use_dtrace': 'false',
             'node_use_isolates': 'true',
             'node_use_openssl': 'true',
             'node_use_system_openssl': 'false',
             'target_arch': 'ia32',
             'v8_use_snapshot': 'true'}}`

This suggests node detects, and still compiles to a 32-bit architecture. Is this a bug in the configuration filed, I would expect node to compile to 64-bit on a native 64-bit system? The only other thing I can think of is that the V8 snapshot is 32-bit; would this mean compiling my own version of V8 for a 64-bit arch?

Answer 1

Apparently the guys working on node fixed my reported issue within 10 hours. Fantastic work. Question answered, issue resolved (untested).