1 Evented I/O for V8 javascript. [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/joyent/node.png)](http://travis-ci.org/joyent/node)
6 Prerequisites (Unix only):
10 * GNU Make 3.81 or newer
11 * libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
19 If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a
20 non-standard name, run the following instead:
22 export PYTHON=/path/to/python
31 You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from
32 [http://nodejs.org/download/](http://nodejs.org/download/). The Windows
33 and OS X installers will prompt you for the location to install to.
34 The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory
37 tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
41 cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \
42 /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
54 ### To build the documentation:
58 ### To read the documentation:
62 Resources for Newcomers
64 - [The Wiki](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki)
65 - [nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/)
66 - [how to install node.js and npm (node package manager)](http://www.joyent.com/blog/installing-node-and-npm/)
67 - [list of modules](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules)
68 - [searching the npm registry](http://npmjs.org/)
69 - [list of companies and projects using node](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-and-Companies-Using-Node)
70 - [node.js mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs)
71 - irc chatroom, [#node.js on freenode.net](http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=node.js&uio=d4)
72 - [community](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Community)
73 - [contributing](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Contributing)
74 - [big list of all the helpful wiki pages](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/_pages)