I've been producing Node.JS packages for Solaris 10 for a long time. The following notes describe how those packages are built, and the changes that I needed to make.
First, you're going to need a reasonably up to date version of GCC. For the 0.x series, 4.6 should be sufficient; for v4 and later you need at least 4.8. In the following, I'm going to call the prefix for GCC $GROOT, so that the gcc binary should be located at $GROOT/bin/gcc.
There are a few places where the build (or npm at runtime) assumes GNU tools.
You need to decide where you want Node to be installed. I'm going to call that $NROOT, which for my builds was /opt/Node.
Unpack the source tarball and cd into the node-vXXX directory. Replace tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py with this file. (If you're interested, look for FixupSolarisShell.)
gsed -i s:objdump:gobjdump: tools/genv8constants.py env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LDFLAGS=-R$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH ./configure --no-ifaddrs --prefix=$NROOT env LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake -j 3 env LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake install
Unpack the source tarball and cd into the node-vXXX directory. Replace tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py with this file. (That's the same as 0.10.)
In the file deps/v8/src/allocation.cc, replace
if (posix_memalign(&ptr, alignment, size)) ptr = NULL;
with
ptr = memalign(alignment, size);
In the file deps/uv/src/unix/fs.c, add the following
char* mkdtemp( char * template )
{
if( !mktemp( template ) || mkdir( template, 0700 ) )
return NULL;
return template;
}
just before where mkdtemp is called.
In the file src/node_os.cc add a missing return at about line 242,
where it says
if (err == UV_ENOSYS) {
args.GetReturnValue().Set(ret);
that should be
if (err == UV_ENOSYS) {
args.GetReturnValue().Set(ret);
return;
Then:
gsed -i 's:-lnsl:-lsocket -lnsl -lrt:' deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp
gsed -i s:objdump:gobjdump: tools/genv8constants.py
gsed -i 's:node_use_mdb=="true":node_use_mdb=="false":' node.gyp
env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LDFLAGS=-R$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH ./configure --without-dtrace --no-ifaddrs --prefix=$NROOT
env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake
env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake install
Remember, from this point you definitely need gcc 4.8 or later.
Apply similar fixes to the files deps/v8/src/allocation.cc (posix_memalign) and deps/uv/src/unix/fs.c (mkdtemp) as were necessary in 0.12.
gsed -i 's:-lnsl:-lsocket -lnsl -lrt:' deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp gsed -i s:objdump:gobjdump: tools/genv8constants.py env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LDFLAGS=-R$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH ./configure --without-dtrace --no-ifaddrs --prefix=$NROOT env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake install
This is similar to v4. Apply similar fixes to the files deps/v8/src/allocation.cc (posix_memalign) and deps/uv/src/unix/fs.c (mkdtemp) as were necessary in 0.12. There's one additional fix regarding execinfo that appeared at about 6.3, see below.
Very recent versions of v6 have a call to strnlen in deps/uv/src/unix/getaddrinfo.c - replace this with strlen and remove the 2nd argument.
gsed -i 's:-lnsl:-lsocket -lnsl -lrt:' deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp gsed -i s:objdump:gobjdump: tools/genv8constants.py gsed -i 's:define HAVE_EXECINFO_H 1:define HAVE_EXECINFO_H 0:' src/backtrace_posix.cc env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LDFLAGS=-R$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH ./configure --without-dtrace --no-ifaddrs --prefix=$NROOT env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake install
This is similar to v6. Apply similar fixes to the files deps/v8/src/allocation.cc (posix_memalign) and deps/uv/src/unix/fs.c (mkdtemp) as were necessary in 0.12. There are two fixes regarding execinfo below.
Very recent versions of v8 have a call to strnlen in deps/uv/src/unix/getaddrinfo.c - replace this with strlen and remove the 2nd argument.
gsed -i s:objdump:gobjdump: tools/genv8constants.py gsed -i 's:define HAVE_EXECINFO_H 1:define HAVE_EXECINFO_H 0:' src/backtrace_posix.cc gsed -i 's:define HAVE_EXECINFO_H 1:define HAVE_EXECINFO_H 0:' deps/v8/src/base/debug/stack_trace_posix.cc env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LDFLAGS=-R$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH ./configure --without-dtrace --no-ifaddrs --prefix=$NROOT env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake env CC=gcc CXX=g++ LD_RUN_PATH=$NROOT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NROOT/lib PATH=$GROOT/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH gmake install
Depending on how you have your gcc installation configured, you'll probably have to copy libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 from $GROOT/lib into $NROOT/lib.
If you need 64-bit support (my packages are 32-bit which will work on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems), then add --dest-cpu=x64 to the configure command.
In order to make the package functional, and for npm to work, I also install a copy of cURL (you may find that 7.42.1 is the latest that will work out of the box on Solaris 10), and add symlinks for tar and make:
ln -s /usr/sfw/bin/gtar $NROOT/bin/tar ln -s /usr/sfw/bin/gmake $NROOT/bin/make
If you've already got your environment set up, these may not be necessary.
While it's now ancient and no longer relevant, a couple of blog entries described my early attempts to get node running on Solaris. For details see blog entry 1 and blog entry 2.