First "official" NodeJS build on Windows

Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by binarymax on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @06:24AM (#2784934)

I absolutely love the fact that its just a single exe and not some bloated install. I wish more win software was built like this.

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by MatthewPhillips on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:33AM (#2785054)

Why? If you use someone else's library there's going to be a dll associated. Node doesn't have any dependencies.

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by deskamess on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @08:44AM (#2785196)

Does a javascript engine like V8 have to be installed separately to avoid dependency issues?

Microsoft has the Chakra engine but as far as I know it was running inside IE only.

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by MatthewPhillips on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @10:03AM (#2785547)

V8 is open source, so it's compiled into Node. But I don't even compile open-source libraries into my windows assemblies. That seems like an incredible waste of time for little benefit.

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by sjs on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @01:19PM (#2786550)

The distribution & install story is better w/ a single statically linked exe (imo of course). Not to mention installing node for development and on servers. When everything is in one place it's just so easy.

I think the benefit is huge and don't see how it's a waste of time. Node is linked to specific V8 versions, it makes sense to include it.

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by mathgladiator on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @09:16PM (#2788149)

Case in point: putty.exe

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by hvs on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @09:17AM (#2785332)

It's compiled into Node.

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