Native Compilation for NPM packages

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I have tried to install the development packages in Linux as described at http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/native-compilation.

The image I use is Colibri_iMX6_LinuxImageV2.7_20170112 (Angstrom v2016.12 - Kernel 4.1.35-v2.7b1+gc117783).

When I execute the command opkg install packagegroup-sdk-target then I get an error, that the package is not found.

I need the native compiler only for the NPM package zeromq during installation via NPM.

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Hi

Our mirror of the angstrom-distribution.org feeds do not (yet) contain the needed packages.
You could edit /etc/opkg/base-feed.conf to point to:
src/gz base-armv7ahf-neon Index of /feeds/v2016.12/ipk/glibc/armv7at2hf-neon/base/
and /etc/opkg/noarch-feed.conf
src/gz no-arch Index of /feeds/v2016.12/ipk/glibc/all/

And try again

opkg update
opkg install packagegroup-sdk-target nodejs nodejs-npm zeromq-dev
opkg install python-compiler python-multiprocessing
npm install zmq

Note that the prefered way of creating images is to cross-compile stuff within OE/Yocto and then deploy it on target modules.

For nodejs and npm modules the Yocto Wiki has this informative page on how to create recipes to get to this goal.

Max