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Alexis Campailla
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This is a port of 03e93526e6 .
Original commit message:
Adding a compatibility section to node.exe embedded manifest so that
Node is declared explicitly compatible with Windows 8.1. Required so
that os.release() can return the correct version on Windows 8.1.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724451(v=vs.85).aspx
Reviewed-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2838
Reviewed-By: silverwind - Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Evented I/O for V8 javascript. 
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* GCC 4.2 or newer
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
Windows:
vcbuild.bat
You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from http://nodejs.org/download/. The Windows and OS X installers will prompt you for the location to install to. The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory with:
tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
Or system-wide with:
cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \
/path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild.bat test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1