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tools: add Boxstarter script
bzoz Nov 14, 2017
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fixup: remove vscode, rename to bootstrap
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fixup: move link in BUILDING.md up, add Linux instructions
bzoz Nov 22, 2017
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fixup: chagnge git-core to core, add macOS and windows disk space
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## Building Node.js on supported platforms

*Note:* All prerequisites can be easily installed by following
[this bootstrapping guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/tools/bootstrap/README.md).

### Unix / macOS

Prerequisites:
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[Git for Windows](http://git-scm.com/download/win) includes Git Bash
and tools which can be included in the global `PATH`.

*Note:* All prerequisites can be easily installed by following
[this bootstrapping guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/tools/bootstrap/README.md#Windows).

If the path to your build directory contains a space, the build will likely fail.

```console
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Install-BoxstarterPackage https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodejs/node/master/tools/bootstrap/windows_boxstarter -DisableReboots
```

## Linux

For building Node.js on Linux, following packets are required (note, that this
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Should packets be packages?

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Yes

can vary from distribution to distribution):
* `git-core`
* `python`
* `gcc-c++` or `g++`
* `make`

To bootstrap Node.js on Linux, run in terminal:
* OpenSUSE: `sudo zypper install git-core python gcc-c++ make`
* Fedora: `sudo dnf install git-core python gcc-c++ make`
* Ubuntu, Debian: `sudo apt-get install git-core python g++ make`
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Does git-core work? From the website it seems like it should be git for all three distros.

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It looks like on openSUSE git-core is more lightweight than git package. But I think I'll change this anyway.


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For macOS I'm pretty sure it's just:

xcode-select --install # Installs git, make, and clang

python2 is already installed.

[Boxstarter]: http://boxstarter.org/
[Boxstarter WebLauncher]: http://boxstarter.org/WebLauncher
[Chocolatey]: https://chocolatey.org/
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