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Evented I/O for V8 javascript.
===
### To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* GCC 4.2 or newer
* G++ 4.2 or newer
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
```sh
./configure
make
make install
```
With libicu i18n support:
```sh
svn checkout --force --revision 214189 \
http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/deps/third_party/icu46 \
deps/v8/third_party/icu46
./configure --with-icu-path=deps/v8/third_party/icu46/icu.gyp
make
make install
```
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a
non-standard name, run the following instead:
```sh
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
```
Prerequisites (Windows only):
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* Visual Studio 2010 or 2012
Windows:
vcbuild nosign
You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from
[http://nodejs.org/download/](http://nodejs.org/download/). The Windows
and OS X installers will prompt you for the location to install to.
The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory
with:
```sh
tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
```
Or system-wide with:
```sh
cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \
/path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
```
### To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
```sh
make test
```
Windows:
```sh
vcbuild test
```
### To build the documentation:
```sh
make doc
```
### To read the documentation:
```sh
man doc/node.1
```
Resources for Newcomers
---
- [The Wiki](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki)
- [nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/)
- [how to install node.js and npm (node package manager)](http://www.joyent.com/blog/installing-node-and-npm/)
- [list of modules](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules)
- [searching the npm registry](http://npmjs.org/)
- [list of companies and projects using node](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-and-Companies-Using-Node)
- [node.js mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs)
- irc chatroom, [#node.js on freenode.net](http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=node.js&uio=d4)
- [community](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Community)
- [contributing](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Contributing)
- [big list of all the helpful wiki pages](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/_pages)
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