I'm trying to get node.js to compile. Unfortunately MacOS doesn't put g++ and gcc in your path even if you install the developer tools, apparently, so I have to stick them in there:
export SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk
export PATH=/Developer/usr/bin:$PATH
But given that, ./configure still fails. The log says it can't find pthread.h.
The rest of this document is about how I searched for the answer (although for only three hours, because on MacOS, things Just Work!). The actual answer is quite short.
tar xzvf node-v0.4.2.tar.gz
cd node-v0.4.2
export PATH=/Developer/usr/bin:$PATH
ISYSROOT="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk"
export LINKFLAGS=$ISYSROOT CXXFLAGS=$ISYSROOT CFLAGS=$ISYSROOT
./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-ssl
make
Note that it is important to have the environment variables set for both ./configure and make.
Isn't MacOS wonderful? None of those obscure error messages you're used to from Linux, and you can download almost any piece of open-source software, compile it, and it works!
C_INCLUDE_PATH, etc.:Well, there's a perfectly good pthread.h in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h and also in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h. It's not obvious why the gcc from the developer package wouldn't find it. But it doesn't, so I gave it a little bit of help (this was the wrong thing to do):
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$SDK/usr/include
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$SDK/usr/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=$SDK/usr/lib
That allows ./configure --without-ssl to complete successfully, even though it was the wrong thing to do. However, make still fails to build anything, because it still can't find header files:
Waf: Entering directory `/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build'
[49/73] copy: src/node_config.h.in -> build/default/src/node_config.h
[50/73] copy: tools/nodejs.pc.in -> build/default/tools/nodejs.pc
[51/73] libv8.a: deps/v8/SConstruct -> build/default/libv8.a
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/tools/scons/scons.py" -j 1 -C "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build/default/" -Y "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8" visibility=default mode=release arch=ia32 toolchain=gcc library=static snapshot=on
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: warning: Ignoring missing SConscript 'obj/test/release/SConscript'
File "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/SConstruct", line 1201, in BuildSpecific
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
g++ -o obj/release/accessors.o -c -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -I/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc
In file included from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/../include/v8.h:41,
from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/v8.h:55,
from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc:28:
/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/../include/v8stdint.h:33:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
(988 more lines of error messages omitted)
/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc:906: warning: synthesized method 'virtual v8::internal::TargetCollector::~TargetCollector()' first required here
scons: *** [obj/release/accessors.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
Waf: Leaving directory `/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build'
Build failed: -> task failed (err #2):
{task: libv8.a SConstruct -> libv8.a}
DEST_OS: darwin
DEST_CPU: ia32
Parallel Jobs: 1
Product type: program
make: *** [program] Error 1
Interestingly, if I copy and paste the g++ command line myself, I get a different error, which suggests that scons or make or something is removing my CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH (etc.) from the environment:
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$ g++ -o obj/release/accessors.o -c -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -I/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc
In file included from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/v8utils.h:32,
from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/v8.h:59,
from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc:28:
/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/platform.h:109:18: error: limits: No such file or directory
If I unset those variables by hand, I get the same error messages SCons does.
Anyway, I'm clearly doing something wrong in the way I'm invoking the compiler, but I don’t know the right way. Apple’s note “The GCC Compiler Collection on Mac OS X” does not help; it does not even suggest that this might be a problem.
Searching for stuff like this, I found five-year-old instructions on compiling perl which recommend passing hairy ccflags and ldflags to Perl's Configure script. Namely:
./Configure -Accflags="-nostdinc -B$SDK/usr/include/gcc \
-B$SDK/usr/lib/gcc -isystem$SDK/usr/include \
-F$SDK/System/Library/Frameworks" \
-Aldflags="-Wl,-syslibroot,$SDK" \
-de
Maybe I can get this to work for Node's configure script. Still, I can't shake the feeling that I must be doing something wrong to run into these problems in the first place.
I found some other guy with the same problem but he seems to have given up on building his own binaries and just installing prebuilt binaries using Homebrew.
Some other guy has the string -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk in his gcc command line... that seems to help:
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$ cd build/default/
Black-Beauty:default kragen$ g++ -o obj/release/accessors.o -c -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -I/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc
(completes without errors!)
Unfortunately, it was not clear to me how to get "waf", invoked by Node's ./configure, to add this to the CXXFLAGS and CFLAGS.
[21:59] <echosystm> if you want to get up and running quickly, you're probably best off just running a linux vm or something
[22:00] <echosystm> the latest dev tools wont run on 10.5, as far as i am aware
[22:00] <echosystm> and you'll probably need them to build node
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$ LINKFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk' CXXFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk' CFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk' ./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-ssl
...
'configure' finished successfully (2.352s)
WARNING WARNING WARNING
OpenSSL not found. Will compile Node without crypto support!
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$ make
Waf: Entering directory `/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build'
...
(builds the first 47 files successfully...) ...
[47/73] cc: deps/http_parser/http_parser.c -> build/default/deps/http_parser/http_parser_2.o
/Developer/usr/bin/gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -rdynamic -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H=1 -pthread -arch i386 -m32 -g -O3 -DEV_FORK_ENABLE=0 -DEV_EMBED_ENABLE=0 -DEV_MULTIPLICITY=0 -DX_STACKSIZE=65536 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DEV_MULTIPLICITY=0 -DHAVE_FDATASYNC=0 -DPLATFORM="darwin" -D__POSIX__=1 -Wno-unused-parameter -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DNDEBUG -Idefault/deps/http_parser -I../deps/http_parser ../deps/http_parser/http_parser.c -c -o default/deps/http_parser/http_parser_2.o
[49/73] copy: src/node_config.h.in -> build/default/src/node_config.h
[50/73] copy: tools/nodejs.pc.in -> build/default/tools/nodejs.pc
[51/73] libv8.a: deps/v8/SConstruct -> build/default/libv8.a
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/tools/scons/scons.py" -j 1 -C "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build/default/" -Y "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8" visibility=default mode=release arch=ia32 toolchain=gcc library=static snapshot=on
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: warning: Ignoring missing SConscript 'obj/test/release/SConscript'
File "/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/SConstruct", line 1201, in BuildSpecific
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
g++ -o obj/release/accessors.o -c -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -I/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc
In file included from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/../include/v8.h:41,
from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/v8.h:55,
from /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc:28:
/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/../include/v8stdint.h:33:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
...
/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc:906: warning: synthesized method 'virtual v8::internal::TargetCollector::~TargetCollector()' first required here
scons: *** [obj/release/accessors.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
Waf: Leaving directory `/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build'
Build failed: -> task failed (err #2):
{task: libv8.a SConstruct -> libv8.a}
make: *** [program] Error 1
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$
It appears that the CFLAGS setting took, but the CXXFLAGS setting (for Waf) was ignored. Also, though, perhaps the two directories were configured in different ways; it doesn't seem to be invoking g++ as /Developer/usr/bin/g++, even though it invoked gcc as /Developer/usr/bin/gcc.
Hmm, if I supply CXXFLAGS directly to make as well as to configure, I seem to make further progress:
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$ CXXFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk' make
...
g++ -o obj/release/accessors.o -c -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -I/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src /Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/deps/v8/src/accessors.cc
...
This still bombs out at the end with a link command line, which complains:
ld: library not found for -lcrt1.10.5.o
...and the corresponding 3.5 kilobyte command line lacks -isysroot. Supplying LINKFLAGS (not LDFLAGS) fixes that problem, and we're done:
Black-Beauty:node-v0.4.2 kragen$ LINKFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk' CXXFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk' make
...
Waf: Leaving directory `/Users/kragen/Downloads/node-v0.4.2/build'
'build' finished successfully (29.703s)
And make install works.