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imyller / meta-nodejs

OpenEmbedded layer for latest Node.js releases
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How to build specific version nodejs, such as 4.x without npm? How small can the nodejs be using bitbake?? #59

Closed alex2wong closed 6 years ago

alex2wong commented 8 years ago

Hello, It is really nice to get involved in bitbake when I want to build a mini nodejs in linux. I have add EXTRALAYERS in oe/build/conf/bblayers.conf as follows:

BBLAYERS ?= " \
  /home/linux/Documents/openembedded-core/meta \
  "
EXTRALAYERS +=" \
        /home/linux/Documents/meta-nodejs \
    "

And I copyed the nodejs dir in meta-nodejs/recipes-devtools"" to oe/build/meta/recipes-devtools as the BBLAYERS refer to. Then I start to bitbake nodejs, this time I don't specify any version, cause last time I use "bitbake -b '/nodejs_v4.6'" which caused oe runtime failed ...**, Have you ever encountered this problem??

So "bitbake nodejs" cmd start about total 567 task....It is really slow.... Last question: is there any difference between bibake nodejs to official tutorial of nodejs with make ?? The node_v0.12.x under windows can be smaller than 10MB, can it be under linux?? Thx!

imyller commented 8 years ago

You should never break up layer by copying parts of it to a different location. A layer has lot of other files (classes, configuration etc.) that are internally referenced.

Please keep meta-nodejs layer and all its subdirectories together as-is.

Your bblayers.conf allows Bitbake to locate configuration and recipes for various layers - including meta-nodejs.

If configured properly, simple bitbake nodejs should be enough to build the latest version.

alex2wong commented 8 years ago

Well, thx very mush. But how long would it take to finish bitbake tasks ??. It seems very slow to do_fetch, do_compile. After I start bitbake nodejs, several hours have gone, but it still has over 300 tasks to finish.