Error Compiling Armv6 (Raspberry Pi B+)

[nathanjohnson320]

Tried compiling version 0.12.0 and get this error:

  flock /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/linker.lock g++ -pthread -rdynamic  -o /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node
/node-0.12.0/out/Release/mksnapshot -Wl,--start-group /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/mksnapshot/d
eps/v8/src/mksnapshot.o /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_base.a /home/pi/no
de_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_nosnapshot.a /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12
.0/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_libplatform.a /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/de
ps/v8/tools/gyp/libv8_libbase.a -Wl,--end-group -lrt
  LINK(target) /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/mksnapshot: Finished
  touch /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/deps/v8/tools/gyp/postmortem-metadata.stamp
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/lib.host:/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Rel
ease/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../deps/v8/tools/gyp; mkdir -p /home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12
.0/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni; "/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/mksnapshot" --log-snapshot-posit
ions --logfile "/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.log" "/home/pi/node_arm/
scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc"
Illegal instruction
deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8_snapshot.target.mk:13: recipe for target '/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/v8_
snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc] Error 132
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/node_arm/scripts/node/node-0.12.0/out'
Makefile:45: recipe for target 'node' failed
make: *** [node] Error 2

[misterdjules]

How did you build node? More specifically, what options did you pass to configure? The configure script creates a config.gypi file at the root of the source directory that contains all configuration options. Could you please paste the content of this file in this issue?

If you didn't disable V8 snapshots with configure --without-snapshot, could you please try to run ./configure --without-snapshot, build node and let us know if it built successfully?

[nathanjohnson320]

I did ./configure without args. I'll try again with the no snapshot setting.

[fivdi]

The same issue was fixed recently in io.js. In additon to the --without-snapshot option two changes were required; bnoordhuis/io.js@8afcc5e and bnoordhuis/io.js@6f74942.

See Getting 'illegal instruction' error on armv6.

[nathanjohnson320]

Yep those changes fixed it for me. Thanks fivdi

[wilson0x4d]

#9068 - pull request for nodejs, though part of the problem is in v8, and not node itself.

[Fishrock123]

RPI B+ are now in the Node.js CI for 4.x+, try using a newer version if you have not already.