I recently decided to jump on the NodeJS bandwagon. NodeJS requires a POSIX OS and as such wouldn’t run on my Win7 laptop. I first created a slim Ubuntu VM on virtualbox. Running in seamless mode, it was almost like NodeJS was running right in Windows. It was perfect, but it worked.
After awhile, I started to notice that the 100meg+ made my laptop fan work a bit too hard. I decided I’ll try Cygwin.
I used the instructions from Github and a bit of Googling to get it working. It was surprisingly easier than the last time I tried Cygwin a few years ago.
You’ll only need to download two files: Cygwin & mintty.
Open CMD and navigate to setup.exe:
setup.exe -q -s http://cygwin.osuosl.org --package gcc-g++,git,make,openssl,openssl-devel,pkg-config,zlib-devel,python,curl,wget,nano,rebase
(Note that this is all one line.)
Launch the Cygwin Bash Shell - you can close it once it loads and never look back.
Open c:\cygwin\bin\dash:
/bin/rebaseall -v
Now extract mintty and run “Create shortcut.” Launch mintty and follow the build steps:
mkdir src
cd src
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
git fetch --all
git tag
git checkout v0.4.5
./configure
make #grab a beer and wait
make install
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 8.8.4.4" >> /etc/resolv.conf
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
I also create a symlink so all my files show up in Dropbox:
mklink /J C:\cygwin\home\{user}\projects C:\Users\{user}\Documents\Dropbox\projects
(note the space between the Cygwin folder and Dropbox folder)
I’ll try to put together a Screenr and run through the steps.
Anyone else playing with NodeJS on Windows or otherwise?
After awhile, I started to notice that the 100meg+ made my laptop fan work a bit too hard. I decided I’ll try Cygwin.
I used the instructions from Github and a bit of Googling to get it working. It was surprisingly easier than the last time I tried Cygwin a few years ago.
You’ll only need to download two files: Cygwin & mintty.
Open CMD and navigate to setup.exe:
setup.exe -q -s http://cygwin.osuosl.org --package gcc-g++,git,make,openssl,openssl-devel,pkg-config,zlib-devel,python,curl,wget,nano,rebase
(Note that this is all one line.)
Launch the Cygwin Bash Shell - you can close it once it loads and never look back.
Open c:\cygwin\bin\dash:
/bin/rebaseall -v
Now extract mintty and run “Create shortcut.” Launch mintty and follow the build steps:
mkdir src
cd src
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
git fetch --all
git tag
git checkout v0.4.5
./configure
make #grab a beer and wait
make install
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 8.8.4.4" >> /etc/resolv.conf
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
I also create a symlink so all my files show up in Dropbox:
mklink /J C:\cygwin\home\{user}\projects C:\Users\{user}\Documents\Dropbox\projects
(note the space between the Cygwin folder and Dropbox folder)
I’ll try to put together a Screenr and run through the steps.
Anyone else playing with NodeJS on Windows or otherwise?
./BBK
