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Did anybody got node.js running on the vocore?

I am a bit worried about memory consumption. Not sure if it will work. Will also be tight to fit it in the flash.
Will try to crosscompile and update my findings.

I just used this script to build a mips version of node.js:
https://github.com/nneves/openwrt_mips_ar9331_nodejs

When I start it on the vocore I get the following error:

root@OpenWrt:/node# ./node
./node: line 1: syntax error: unexpected "("

So I am wondering: is the AR9331 mips cpu not binary compatible to the RT5350?

Ok, I think I figured it out.

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file node

tells me

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node: ELF 32-bit MSB  executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

i.e. it is a MSB/big endian binary. But I need a LSB binary for the RT5350/vocore.

I imagine you have found this since you got that far but if not; searching that github repository for endian finds this in the .config:

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CONFIG_BIG_ENDIAN=y

the 5350 is definitely little endian, I had to deal with the same when porting pepe2k's work for the AR9331 to the VoCore

Use this one:
https://github.com/majklovec/wrtnode-packages

it works out of the box. I also posted a new thread about some details specific to compiling this in a vocore image. Works on openwrt 14.07 with vocore.