Prerequisites (Unix only):
* GCC 4.2 or newer * Python 2.6 or 2.7 * GNU Make 3.81 or newer * libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only) Unix/Macintosh:
./configure make make install If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python $PYTHON ./configure make make install Prerequisites (Windows only):
* Python 2.6 or 2.7 * Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 Windows:
vcbuild nosign You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from http://nodejs.org/download/. The Windows and OS X installers will prompt you for the location to install to. The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory with:
tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz Or system-wide with:
cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \ /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz Unix/Macintosh:
make test Windows:
vcbuild test make doc man doc/node.1