NodeJS Synology Install Guide

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ipkg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/opkg
• http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/hayek/jochen/wp/blog-en/2017/11/15/synology-optware/

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• https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS
• https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng
• https://github.com/Optware/Optware-ng

Login into synology box

ssh username@ipforsynologybox

Switch to root user

sudo su -

Create the optware root directory

enter the following commands:

mkdir /volume1/@optware
mkdir /opt
mount -o bind /volume1/@optware /opt

Set up IPKG:

Run the following commands

feed=http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable
ipk_name=`wget -qO- $feed/Packages | awk '/^Filename: ipkg-opt/ {print $2}'`
wget $feed/$ipk_name
tar -xOvzf $ipk_name ./data.tar.gz | tar -C / -xzvf -
mkdir -p /opt/etc/ipkg
echo "src cross $feed" > /opt/etc/ipkg/feeds.conf

Fix some PATH issues

vi /etc/profile

Add the following line to /etc/profile:

PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH
export PATH

vi /root/.profile

Add the following line to /root/.profile:

PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH
export PATH

###Reboot Reboot your DiskStation. Do NOT use the "reboot" command, use "reboot -f" or reboot with the DSM GUI.

reboot -f

###Create some local optware stuff Create the /etc/rc.local file and insert:

vi /etc/rc.local

#!/bin/sh

# Optware setup
[ -x /etc/rc.optware ] && /etc/rc.optware start

exit 0

Make it executable

chmod 755 /etc/rc.local

Create the /etc/rc.optware

vi /etc/rc.optware

Insert

#! /bin/sh

if test -z "${REAL_OPT_DIR}"; then
# next line to be replaced according to OPTWARE_TARGET
REAL_OPT_DIR=/volume1/@optware
fi

case "$1" in
   start)
      echo "Starting Optware."
      if test -n "${REAL_OPT_DIR}"; then
         if ! grep ' /opt ' /proc/mounts >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
            mkdir -p /opt
            mount -o bind ${REAL_OPT_DIR} /opt
         fi
      fi
   [ -x /opt/etc/rc.optware ] && /opt/etc/rc.optware
   ;;
   reconfig)
   true
   ;;
   stop)
      echo "Shutting down Optware."
   true
   ;;
   *)
      echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reconfig}"
      exit 1
esac

exit 0

Make it executable

chmod 755 /etc/rc.optware

Update and upgrade ipkg

ipkg update
ipkg ugrade

###Install Git and Node

ipkg install git
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
./configure --prefix=/opt/node
make
make install

If you get a C compiler issue when trying to ./configure fix the c compiler symlink

ln -s /opt/bin/gcc /opt/bin/cc

Try ./configure again

If you get an error talking about GYP

gyp:name 'arm_version' is not defined while evaluating condition 'arm_version==7' in /home/ubuntu/node/deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp while loading dependencies of /home/ubuntu/node/node.gyp while trying to load /home/ubuntu/node/node.gyp
Error running GYP

Add the following to 'variables' in common.gypi:

'arm_version%' : '1', so it looks like this:

{
  'variables': {
  'werror': '',                    # Turn off -Werror in V8 build.
  'visibility%': 'hidden',         # V8's visibility setting
  'target_arch%': 'ia32',          # set v8's target architecture
  'host_arch%': 'ia32',            # set v8's host architecture
  'want_separate_host_toolset': 0, # V8 should not build target and host
  'library%': 'static_library',    # allow override to 'shared_library' for D$
  'component%': 'static_library',  # NB. these names match with what V8 expec$
  'msvs_multi_core_compile': '0',  # we do enable multicore compiles, but not$
  'gcc_version%': 'unknown',
  'clang%': 0,
  'python%': 'python',
  'arm_version%' : '1',

# Enable V8's post-mortem debugging only on unix flavors.

./configure should work now

make
make install

###All Done