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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Open Source and PASE
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 12, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

NodeJS 8+ for IBM i V7R1

Port NodeJs for V7R1 or if it might be possible to give instructions how to compile it from scratch


Use Case:

We have many machines with V7R1 on it and we are not getting new ones in near future.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 2, 2021

    .We are delivering new versions of Node.js on supported operating systems only. For instance, Node.js 16 is only available on IBM i 7.3 and newer.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 14, 2020

    You could try using nvm as documented at https://bitbucket.org/ibmi/opensource/src/master/docs/nvm/
    If you run into any issues, you could open defects against the Node.js repository on GitHub, though we can make no guarantee your issues will be addressed

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 13, 2020

    Thank you for your advices. But I can't run node14 under V7R1M0.
    I get error messages "libperfstat.a(shr_64.o) can't be loaded". I think under V7R1 libperfstat.a is not present.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 12, 2020

    or you can find the latest AIX build of NodeJS 14 here as well which will run unmodified under PASE but Select the version appropriate for your need.
    https://nodejs.org/download/release/v14.8.0/

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 12, 2020

    Or the GCC compilers.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 12, 2020

    Follow the Unix instructions, get a copy of the AIX C/C++ compilers installed into the PASE environment.
    https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md

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