On May 4, 6:58 pm, Marcel Laverdet <[email protected]> wrote: > But is someone going to beat me up if I stick a bunch of compiled binaries > into npm?
Probably not, but it might depend on how easy it is to compile the binary on Windows. For example, my mmmagic module depends on libmagic which has a lot of *nix-specific stuff and would take more time than I have to create a floating patch for it to build easily under msvc. So what I ended up doing as a workaround was to compile it under mingw (as a static lib) and then link that to my addon. Since this requires much more than just "install vc2010 express" (e.g. also requiring a proper mingw setup, etc), IMHO it's well worth making a pre-compiled version of the addon for Windows users. Also, I think it'd be nice to let non-Windows users compile from scratch (if possible), mostly because of the varying architectures/ platforms that node supports. That's my 2 cents. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
