node-gyp - BayNode Meetup September 6, 2012

Slides from my talk at BayNode on September 6, 2012. Talked about the history of node.js' build system and introduced node-gyp.

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1. node-gyp Building your Node.js addons since v0.6! Nathan Rajlich BayNode September 2012
2. About me
3. About me * My name is Nathan Rajlich
4. About me * My name is Nathan Rajlich * I’m an engineer at LearnBoost
5. About me * My name is Nathan Rajlich * I’m an engineer at LearnBoost * I’m one of the Node.js core comitters
6. About me * My name is Nathan Rajlich * I’m an engineer at LearnBoost * I’m one of the Node.js core comitters * I enjoy running C/C++ code in Node.js
7. History of Node’s Build System
8. History of Node’s Build System
9. History of Node’s Build System
10. History of Node’s Build System
11. History of Node’s Build System
12. History of Node’s Build System
13. History of Node’s Build System
14. History of Node’s Build System
15. History of Node’s Build System
16. History of Node’s Build System
17. History of Node’s Build System
18. History of Node’s Build System
19. History of Node’s Build System
20. History of Node’s Build System
21. History of Node’s Build System
22. History of Node’s Build System
23. History of Node’s Build System
24. History of Node’s Build System
25. History of Node’s Build System
26. History of Node’s Build System
27. History of Node’s Build System
28. node-gyp is born!
29. node-gyp invokes “gyp” invokes “MSVC” or “make”
30. node-gyp invokes “clean”, “configure” and “build” together
31. node-gyp
32. node-gyp * You DON’T need to install node-gyp
33. node-gyp * You DON’T need to install node-gyp * It comes bundled with “npm” as of v1.1.6
34. node-gyp * You DON’T need to install node-gyp * It comes bundled with “npm” as of v1.1.6 * When you run “npm install” on a module with a “binding.gyp” file in it, then npm will use its own internal copy of node-gyp to build it.
35. go to iTerm 2!