first stab at instructions

README.md

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+### About
+
+If you're looking to run the latest Node.JS on the Raspberry Pi, you've come to the right place.  
+
+
+### Installation
+
+
+Installation from the binaries available is easy:
+
+```
+tar xzf node-v0.8.2.tar.gz
+cp -R ./node-v0.8.2/* /
+```
+
+### Building 
+
+Building is a bit tricker, follow along.
+
+First install some dependencies:
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential libssl-dev
+```
+
+
+Grab the NodePi and Node.JS source and checkout the version you want:
+
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/gflarity/node_pi.git
+git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
+cd node
+git checkout origin/v0.8.2-release -b v0.8.2-release
+```
+
+
+Now apply the patch appropriate for your version of Node.js:
+
+```
+git apply --stat ../node_pi/v0.8.2-release-raspberrypi.patch
+```
+
+Then set the follow exports for use during compilation:
+
+```
+export GYP_DEFINES="armv7=0"
+export CCFLAGS='-march=armv6'
+export CXXFLAGS='-march=armv6'`
+```
+
+Run configure and be sure to use the shared openssl lib that we downloaded earlier:
+
+```
+./configure --shared-openssl
+```
+
+Now make and install:
+
+
+```
+make
+sudo make install
+```
+
+
+### Credits
+
+http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3//viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9929
+http://elsmorian.com/post/23474168753/node-js-on-raspberry-pi

v0.8.2-release-raspberrypi.patch

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+From 6a71e141d22e27d061a6698977c6fe4968a25b46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Geoff Flarity <geoff.flarity@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:48:18 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] changes for Raspberry pi
+
+---
+ deps/v8/SConstruct |   30 +++++++++++++++---------------
+ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/deps/v8/SConstruct b/deps/v8/SConstruct
+index ebce7ff..103e851 100644
+--- a/deps/v8/SConstruct
++++ b/deps/v8/SConstruct
+@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ LIBRARY_FLAGS = {
+   },
+   'gcc': {
+     'all': {
+-      'CCFLAGS':      ['$DIALECTFLAGS', '$WARNINGFLAGS'],
+-      'CXXFLAGS':     ['-fno-rtti', '-fno-exceptions'],
++      'CCFLAGS':      ['$DIALECTFLAGS', '$WARNINGFLAGS', '-march=armv6'],
++      'CXXFLAGS':     ['-fno-rtti', '-fno-exceptions', '-march=armv6'],
+     },
+     'visibility:hidden': {
+       # Use visibility=default to disable this.
+@@ -159,22 +159,22 @@ LIBRARY_FLAGS = {
+       },
+       'armeabi:softfp' : {
+         'CPPDEFINES' : ['USE_EABI_HARDFLOAT=0'],
+-        'vfp3:on': {
+-          'CPPDEFINES' : ['CAN_USE_VFP_INSTRUCTIONS']
+-        },
+-        'simulator:none': {
+-          'CCFLAGS':     ['-mfloat-abi=softfp'],
+-        }
++#        'vfp3:on': {
++#          'CPPDEFINES' : ['CAN_USE_VFP_INSTRUCTIONS']
++#        },
++#        'simulator:none': {
++#          'CCFLAGS':     ['-mfloat-abi=softfp'],
++#        }
+       },
+       'armeabi:hard' : {
+         'CPPDEFINES' : ['USE_EABI_HARDFLOAT=1'],
+-        'vfp3:on': {
+-          'CPPDEFINES' : ['CAN_USE_VFP_INSTRUCTIONS']
+-        },
+-        'simulator:none': {
+-          'CCFLAGS':     ['-mfloat-abi=hard'],
+-        }
+-      }
++#        'vfp3:on': {
++#          'CPPDEFINES' : ['CAN_USE_VFP_INSTRUCTIONS']
++#        },
++#        'simulator:none': {
++#          'CCFLAGS':     ['-mfloat-abi=hard'],
++#        }
++#      }
+     },
+     'simulator:arm': {
+       'CCFLAGS':      ['-m32'],
+-- 
+1.7.10.4
+