I’m trying to get node.js v0.7.9 to compile for the raspberry pi, but as node and v8 are quite large, I’m hoping to be able to cross-compile on another more powerful PC. I’m using the linux-x86 arm-bcm2708-linux-gnueabi toolchain from https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools and have used them to successfully build other executables for the system. I ended up setting the CC,CXX,CPP,STRIP,OBJCOPY,etc. variables to the toolchain equivalents in the environmental variables and ran configure with: ./configure --dest-cpu=arm --without-snapshot to get the final executable. Copying it over to the system and running it however produces the following error:
Extension or internal compilation error at line 0.
Segmentation fault
However, the segmentation fault doesn’t happen for any of the non-javascript tasks like node --version and node --help. Are there any CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS I might be missing causing this problem? Bit confused….
I’ve been working on this a bit since the question was originally asked, even added some patches to help auto-detect cross-compiler settings. Node.js in the repositories is (at the moment) a rather old version, and may or may not support the full hard-float (VFP) architecture.
For a full detailed HOWTO, see Nathan Rajlich’s write up at http://n8.io/cross-compiling-nodejs-v0.8/
I’ve posted binaries for others who don’t want to go through all this hassle for the same hardware at https://gist.github.com/3245130