benjaminoakes / node

evented I/O for v8 javascript

Node.js for Haiku

This is the branch for the Haiku OS port of Node.js. Please note that development is happening on the "haiku" branch rather than the "master" branch.

There is another counterpart project called node-haiku which aims to provide Node.js bindings for the Haiku API. The eventual goal is to have bindings for Node.js (an evented language) to Haiku (an evented OS, originally called OpenBeOS).

To Dos

These might move into GitHub issues, but for now bullet points work. Some discussion happened on #haiku on freenode.net.

• Find preferred solution for /usr/bin/env (it is /bin/env in Haiku). Symlinks are obvious, but this surely isn't the only project with this problem.
• Look into native asynchronous Haiku APIs to replace broken dependencies.
• Fix the c-ares build, possibly by including a config.h from the BSD version (thanks jrabbit).
• Fix math library autotools problems

From #haiku:

jrabbit:        benjaminoakes: its build system sucks in theory it should work but in practice it needs a lot of work
jrabbit:        someone who actually knows it might be able to get it to work
jrabbit:        but the over arching build system is hardwired to look for -lpthreads and we include that -lm which it doesn't care about and theres no way to override the check
benjaminoakes:  gotcha
jrabbit:        basically anything less hackish would work better
benjaminoakes:  well, could be interesting to figure out, I guess 
[...]
DDevine:        jrabbit Ah yeah I had problems trying to get Autotools to pick up the math library ("-lm")  for Stackless Python and I never worked that out.
Duggan2:        autotools suck 
DDevine:        Theoretically you can get it by searching for a trig function - and then Autotools should find the right library but that didn't work.
DDevine:        I will get around to learning more about how it works so that I can possibly help port things. It's completely developer unfriendly as far as I can see.

• Look into other problems with Node's build system:

From #haiku:

jrabbit:  you have to use each project's build system because the python script it uses is totally unportable

Thanks

Generally IRC names, unless I know real names.

• DDevine
• Duggan2
• jrabbit

Evented I/O for V8 javascript.

To build:

./configure
make
make install

To run the tests:

make test

To build the documentation:

make doc

To read the documentation:

man doc/node.1

Resources for Newcomers

• The Wiki
• nodejs.org
• how to install node.js and npm (node package manager)
• list of modules
• searching the npm registry
• list of companies and projects using node
• node.js mailing list
• irc chatroom, #node.js on freenode.net
• community
• contributing
• big list of all the helpful wiki pages

node's Issues

Does it work yet?

How well does the Haiku fork work? If it's 90% complete, consider merging back with Joyent?