Running node.js 10 on CentOS7 ARM on RaspberryPi

[xoxys]

Hi,
I try to run node.js 10 on CentOS 7 on my PI, but currently without luck...

First try: Use the official prebuild armv7 package. Failed because of
node: /lib/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by node)`

Second try: Compile on a Scaleway armv7 host under CentOS 7 with gcc4.8 because 4.9 is not available. Failed with error: 'make_unique' is not a member of 'std' because make_unique requires gcc4.9 i think.

So is there a real chance to get node.js 10 running under CentOS 7 ARM?

[refack]

Have you tried GCC-6 (i.e. devtoolset-6) ? that's the closest toolset we use - https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-arm/nodes=centos7-arm64-gcc6/

[xoxys]

devtoolset is sadly not available for arm
Edit: arm32

[refack]

So what we do is cross-compile for arm7 on a ia32 host - https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-cross-compile/nodes=cross-compiler-armv7-gcc-4.9.4/22305/consoleFull but the host is Ubuntu16, and the compiler is gcc4.9 (which links against libstdc++6)

Does any of the following help? https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libstdc%2B%2B.so.6

[refack]

Or this (it's the libstdc++6 from the cross-compile-toolchain)
libstdc++.zip

[xoxys]

How could this work?
I've copied both files from the zip to /lib folder and softlink ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.22 libstdc++.so.6 but now i get:

# node
node: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /lib/libstdc++.so.6)
root@computron [/lib] # strings /lib/libstdc++.so.6|grep GLIBC
GLIBCXX_3.4
GLIBCXX_3.4.1
GLIBCXX_3.4.2
GLIBCXX_3.4.3
GLIBCXX_3.4.4
GLIBCXX_3.4.5
GLIBCXX_3.4.6
GLIBCXX_3.4.7
GLIBCXX_3.4.8
GLIBCXX_3.4.9
GLIBCXX_3.4.10
GLIBCXX_3.4.11
GLIBCXX_3.4.12
GLIBCXX_3.4.13
GLIBCXX_3.4.14
GLIBCXX_3.4.15
GLIBCXX_3.4.16
GLIBCXX_3.4.17
GLIBCXX_3.4.18
GLIBCXX_3.4.19
GLIBCXX_3.4.20
GLIBCXX_3.4.21
GLIBCXX_3.4.22
GLIBC_2.4
GLIBC_2.18
GLIBC_2.17
GLIBCXX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH

[refack]

node: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found

¯\(ツ)/¯ was worth a shot.

[refack]

BTW, check out related discussion in #1723

[xoxys]

I've got node 10.0.0 compiled with gcc 4.8 but there should be a better method to build an up to date nodejs version for systems with gcc4.8 only

[refack]

I've got node 10.0.0 compiled with gcc 4.8 but there should be a better method to build an up to date nodejs version for systems with gcc4.8 only

That's not going to be possible in the future as both our codebase and V8 will migrate to more and more C++17.

What we should be able to do is cross compile in a way that the only dependencies will be kernel and libc levels as per https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md#supported-platforms

[xoxys]

I've got it to work. Using -static-libstdc++ with cross compile toolchain works for me und node 10.15 is running under CentOS 7 ARMv7

[refack]

I've got it to work. Using -static-libstdc++ with cross compile

That's great news!

I'm going to close this issue. But the discussion is continuing in other threads.