About

If you're looking to run the latest Node.JS on the Raspberry Pi, you've come to the right place.

More improvements to come, follow @gflarity for updates.

Installation

Download a binary available in the Downloads section, then:

tar xzf node-v0.8.2.tar.gz
sudo cp -R ./node-v0.8.2/* /

Building

Building is a bit trickier, follow along.

First install some dependencies:

sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential libssl-dev

Grab the NodePi and Node.JS source and checkout the version you want:

git clone https://github.com/gflarity/node_pi.git
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout origin/v0.8.2-release -b v0.8.2-release

Now apply the patch appropriate for your version of Node.js:

git apply --stat ../node_pi/v0.8.2-release-raspberrypi.patch

Then set the following exports for use during compilation:

export GYP_DEFINES="armv7=0"
export CCFLAGS='-march=armv6'
export CXXFLAGS='-march=armv6'`

Run configure:

./configure 

Now make and make install with the environment variables exported above. If you don't include these it'll try to re-compile everything. As if that weren't bad enough, it'll also probably not compile as there's a reason we included them in the first place!

make
sudo GYP_DEFINES="armv7=0" CCFLAGS='-march=armv6' CXXFLAGS='-march=armv6' make install

To install it global simply copy the contents resurisively to root:

sudo cp -vR /tmp/node-v0.8.2/* /

Credits

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3//viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9929 http://elsmorian.com/post/23474168753/node-js-on-raspberry-pi