Node.js on Solaris, part 2

Here's a followup and slight correction to my notes on building node.js on Solaris 10.

If you read carefully, you'll notice that I specified --without-ssl to the configure command. This makes it build, as it looks like there's a dependency on a newer openssl than is shipped with Solaris 10. While this is good enough for some purposes, it turns out the the expresss module wants ssl (it's required, even if you don't use https, although all you have to do is delete the references).

So, a better way is to build a current openssl first and then get node to link against that. So for the openssl build:

gzcat openssl-1.0.0d.tar.gz | gtar xf -
cd openssl-1.0.0d
env CC=cc CXX=CC ./Configure --prefix=/opt/Node solaris-x86-cc shared
gmake -j 8
gmake install

I'm using the Studio compilers here, as I normally do with things like openssl that provide libraries that might be used by other tools, although gcc should work fine. The important parts here are that it matches the architecture of your other components (so 32-bit, ie x86) and you build shared libraries.

Then you can unpack and patch node as before, then configure with

env LDFLAGS=-R/opt/Node/lib CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 ./configure --prefix=/opt/Node --openssl-includes=/opt/Node/include --openssl-lib=/opt/Node/lib