Node.js Mac OS X 10.5 PPC binaries

[niutech]

Could you please provide binaries of node.js for Mac OS X 10.5 PPC or at least provide a guide on how to easily build it? I have a PowerBook G4 and Xcode 3.14. Thanks!

[andrewlow]

Unfortunately the G4 is blocked on this issue ibmruntimes/v8ppc#97

[andrewlow]

So the good news here is that I'm able to build a version of Node.js on the G4 Mac running Ubuntu 12.10.

You need to grab the changes from the branch https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/tree/g4compat and merge those into the deps/v8ppc directory. A simple replacement of the v8ppc directory with a git clone of the branch will not work as the Node.js code base has a few modifications applied to the V8 implementation ( check changes e238583 and dbe142c - but I won't claim those are the complete set)

The bad news. I'm about to lose my G4 machine access - so getting this to work "for real" is going to have to be left up to someone else. It is pretty low on my priority list - but I'm happy to review and accept patches.

[niutech]

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, it seems too much complicated for me to build it under Mac OS X.

[andrewlow]

We'll leave this issue open in case someone else has the same issue, or wants to take on the challenge.

The Mac G4 hardware is cool, but pretty old at this point and thus is a pretty limited audience.

[DeshmaneMangesh]

@andrewlow hi I have some doubt regarding nodejs in ppc

[andrewlow]

@mangeshPSL could you provide more detail on your doubts?

[DeshmaneMangesh]

@andrewlow I am trying nodejs version v0.10.40 on ppc64le could you please tell me some links actually I am working on atom.io to be ported on ppc64le but it requires nodejs v0.10.40 and I have v0.10.25 . which atom.io internally tries to updated through following link
http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.40/node-v0.10.40-linux-ppc64.tar.gz
and the link is invalid i.e not available for ppc
so could you help me out with some usefull stuff .

[andrewlow]

Well, you probably want to look here https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/#v11 -- it appears the most current version there is 0.10.41

[DeshmaneMangesh]

thanks for the stuff but @andrewlow its Sdk kit , however I want to work on command base i.e through putty(SSH) . is there any binary for nodejs version v0.10.40

[joransiu]

It's been 3 years since this issue been discussed, and I suspect a requirement to support Mac OS X on PPC is probably becoming less and less relevant. Gonna close this item.

[barracuda156]

Any solution to build nodejs for PowerPC G5?

[andrewlow]

Probably no. The root cause here is that there are many variations of the PPC chips out there - and one area where the variations differ is their FPU implementation. Consider the previously linked issue: ibmruntimes/v8ppc#97 - while this may not be specific to the G5 - a similar problem will happen.

Unless we find someone who has the right motivation, time and skills to address these differences in the code base - it's not going to happen.

If you go looking around - it is possible to build/run the V8 code in 'simulation' mode - which effectively emulates the CPU - this is slow - but does work.