Compiling node.js on Cygwin

Question

Hi. I'm trying to build node.js on my Windows XP box (Yes, it IS painful, thanks.) using Cygwin following Ryans instructions here.

Sadly calling "./configure" from the node source directory barfs up this:

$ ./configure
/home/LWE/sources/node.js/wscript: error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/LWE/sources/node.js/tools/wafadmin/Utils.py", line 274, in load_module
    exec(compile(code, file_path, 'exec'), module.__dict__)
  File "/home/LWE/sources/node.js/wscript", line 12, in <module>
    import js2c
  File "/home/LWE/sources/node.js/tools/js2c.py", line 35, in <module>
    import jsmin
  File "/home/LWE/sources/node.js/tools/jsmin.py", line 1
    ../deps/v8/tools/jsmin.py
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm absolutely not into Python so I'm having a hard time figuring this out. Am I missing some dependency or what?

I'd expect that there is some simple little configuration switch that I have to turn, to make this work. I just don't know where/what/why/...

I compiled node.js on my Mac before from the very same sources and that worked like a charm. And I also can't imagine that the build script from the node repository itself is broken.

PS: It's a totally fresh and up to date Cygwin installation with Python 2.6.5.

Answer 1

I also had a problem getting nodejs to compile using cygwin - also a Python issue. I eventually found a reference to having to rebase the cygwin DLL links to make everything work. Of course I couldn't find my original source for help. But I remembered enough to find similar help.

So from http://avalanche123.tumblr.com/post/855374337/nodejs-mongodb-tinyurl

I remembered that you can stop all cygwin processes, run ash (a minimal shell) that is typically found at C:\cygwin\bin\ash.exe and then, in this shell, run "/usr/bin/rebaseall"

Once I had run the rebaseall command I could, using the normal cygwin shell, successfully run the ./configure script for the nodejs source and proceed to "make" and "make install" nodejs.