From 3671cc043233d9e75994ce17abb050ee0581dce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Lau Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:36:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update minimum glibc requirements for Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Starting with Node.js 18 we have moved building the release binaries from being built on CentOS 7/RHEL 7 to being built on RHEL 8 as the End-of-Life date of CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is before the End-of-Life date of Node.js 18 and we do not want to have to make a disruptive change towards the end of Node.js 18's life cycle. Moving to RHEL 8 has raised the glibc version being linked against (2.28). The official Node.js Linux release binaries will only run on Linux distributions with a matching or higher version of glibc. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42659 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/2815 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/2741 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson Reviewed-By: Stewart X Addison Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso --- BUILDING.md | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 34e35c430997a9..4cd19f557c050e 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -99,46 +99,37 @@ Node.js does not support a platform version if a vendor has expired support for it. In other words, Node.js does not support running on End-of-Life (EoL) platforms. This is true regardless of entries in the table below. -| Operating System | Architectures | Versions | Support Type | Notes | -| ---------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | -| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 16.04[^1], Debian 9, EL 7[^2] | -| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 3.10, musl >= 1.1.19 | Experimental | e.g. Alpine 3.8 | -| GNU/Linux | x86 | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 10 | -| GNU/Linux | arm64 | kernel >= 4.5, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, EL 7[^3] | -| GNU/Linux | armv7 | kernel >= 4.14, glibc >= 2.24 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 9 | -| GNU/Linux | armv6 | kernel >= 4.14, glibc >= 2.24 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 | -| GNU/Linux | ppc64le >=power8 | kernel >= 3.10.0, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 2 | e.g. Ubuntu 16.04[^1], EL 7[^2] | -| GNU/Linux | s390x | kernel >= 3.10.0, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 2 | e.g. EL 7[^2] | -| Windows | x64 | >= Windows 10/Server 2016 | Tier 1 | [^4],[^5] | -| Windows | x86 | >= Windows 10/Server 2016 | Experimental | [^6] | -| Windows | x64, x86 | Windows 8.1/Server 2012 | Experimental | | -| Windows | arm64 | >= Windows 10 | Tier 2 (compiling) / Experimental (running) | | -| macOS | x64 | >= 10.15 | Tier 1 | For notes about compilation see [^7] | -| macOS | arm64 | >= 11 | Tier 1 | | -| SmartOS | x64 | >= 18 | Tier 2 | | -| AIX | ppc64be >=power8 | >= 7.2 TL04 | Tier 2 | | -| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 12.2 | Experimental | | - -[^1]: GCC 8 is not provided on the base platform. Users will - need the - [Toolchain test builds PPA](https://launchpad.net/\~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test?field.series_filter=xenial) - or similar to source a newer compiler. - -[^2]: GCC 8 is not provided on the base platform. Users will - need the - [devtoolset-8](https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-8/) - or later to source a newer compiler. - -[^3]: Older kernel versions may work for ARM64. However the - Node.js test infrastructure only tests >= 4.5. - -[^4]: On Windows, running Node.js in Windows terminal emulators +| Operating System | Architectures | Versions | Support Type | Notes | +| ---------------- | ---------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | +| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, RHEL 8 | +| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 3.10, musl >= 1.1.19 | Experimental | e.g. Alpine 3.8 | +| GNU/Linux | x86 | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 10 | +| GNU/Linux | arm64 | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, RHEL 8 | +| GNU/Linux | armv7 | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10 | +| GNU/Linux | armv6 | kernel >= 4.14, glibc >= 2.24 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 | +| GNU/Linux | ppc64le >=power8 | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 2 | e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, RHEL 8 | +| GNU/Linux | s390x | kernel >= 4.18[^1], glibc >= 2.28 | Tier 2 | e.g. RHEL 8 | +| Windows | x64 | >= Windows 10/Server 2016 | Tier 1 | [^2],[^3] | +| Windows | x86 | >= Windows 10/Server 2016 | Experimental | [^4] | +| Windows | x64, x86 | Windows 8.1/Server 2012 | Experimental | | +| Windows | arm64 | >= Windows 10 | Tier 2 (compiling) / Experimental (running) | | +| macOS | x64 | >= 10.15 | Tier 1 | For notes about compilation see [^5] | +| macOS | arm64 | >= 11 | Tier 1 | | +| SmartOS | x64 | >= 18 | Tier 2 | | +| AIX | ppc64be >=power8 | >= 7.2 TL04 | Tier 2 | | +| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 12.2 | Experimental | | + +[^1]: Older kernel versions may work. However official Node.js release + binaries are [built on RHEL 8 systems](#official-binary-platforms-and-toolchains) + with kernel 4.18. + +[^2]: On Windows, running Node.js in Windows terminal emulators like `mintty` requires the usage of [winpty](https://github.com/rprichard/winpty) for the tty channels to work (e.g. `winpty node.exe script.js`). In "Git bash" if you call the node shell alias (`node` without the `.exe` extension), `winpty` is used automatically. -[^5]: The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not +[^3]: The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not supported, but the GNU/Linux build process and binaries should work. The community will only address issues that reproduce on native GNU/Linux systems. Issues that only reproduce on WSL should be reported in the @@ -146,11 +137,11 @@ platforms. This is true regardless of entries in the table below. Windows binary (`node.exe`) in WSL will not work without workarounds such as stdio redirection. -[^6]: Compiling Node.js for x86 Windows is currently impossible due to +[^4]: Compiling Node.js for x86 Windows is currently impossible due to issues with version 10.1 of the V8 engine. Support will come back to its previous status as soon as possible. -[^7]: Our macOS x64 Binaries are compiled with 10.15 as a target. Xcode11 is +[^5]: Our macOS x64 Binaries are compiled with 10.15 as a target. Xcode11 is required to compile. ### Supported toolchains @@ -172,19 +163,17 @@ Binaries at are produced on: | aix-ppc64 | AIX 7.2 TL04 on PPC64BE with GCC 8 | | darwin-x64 | macOS 10.15, Xcode Command Line Tools 11 with -mmacosx-version-min=10.15 | | darwin-arm64 (and .pkg) | macOS 11 (arm64), Xcode Command Line Tools 12 with -mmacosx-version-min=10.15 | -| linux-arm64 | CentOS 7 with devtoolset-8 / GCC 8[^8] | +| linux-arm64 | RHEL 8 with GCC 8[^6] | | linux-armv7l | Cross-compiled on Ubuntu 18.04 x64 with [custom GCC toolchain](https://github.com/rvagg/rpi-newer-crosstools) | -| linux-ppc64le | CentOS 7 with devtoolset-8 / GCC 8[^8] | -| linux-s390x | RHEL 7 with devtoolset-8 / GCC 8[^8] | -| linux-x64 | CentOS 7 with devtoolset-8 / GCC 8[^8] | +| linux-ppc64le | RHEL 8 with GCC 8[^6] | +| linux-s390x | RHEL 8 with GCC 8[^6] | +| linux-x64 | RHEL 8 with GCC 8[^6] | | win-x64 and win-x86 | Windows 2012 R2 (x64) with Visual Studio 2019 | -[^8]: The Enterprise Linux devtoolset-8 allows us to compile binaries with GCC 8 - but linked to the glibc and libstdc++ versions of the host platforms - (CentOS 7 / RHEL 7). Therefore, binaries produced on these systems are - compatible with glibc >= 2.17 and libstdc++ >= 6.0.20 (`GLIBCXX_3.4.20`). - These are available on distributions natively supporting GCC 4.9, such as - Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 8. +[^6]: Binaries produced on these systems are compatible with glibc >= 2.28 + and libstdc++ >= 6.0.25 (`GLIBCXX_3.4.25`). These are available on + distributions natively supporting GCC 8.1 or higher, such as Debian 10, + RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 20.04. #### OpenSSL asm support