Using Node.js with Caché - InterSystems Documentation

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Installation
This section describes the procedure for installing a pre-built cache.node module.
The following components are required:
• Caché installation.
• Node.js version 0.4.2 (or later).
Node.js is available for a number of UNIX platforms. Native support for Windows was added in version 0.6.
The cache.node file is named using the Node.js .node extension for both UNIX and Windows. In the kits supplied by
InterSystems, the module to be used with Node.js version 0.6 (and later) is named cache061.node. This may be renamed
as the more usual cache.node name before deployment to avoid having to modify the require statement in existing
Node.js software.
• Node.js version 0.4.x: cache.node
• Node.js version 0.6.x: cache061.node
2.1 UNIX
The module cache.node is actually a standard UNIX shared object (i.e. cache.so) but with an unusual Node.js-specific file
extension.
Copy cache.node to the following location in the node file system:
.../node/lib/node/
For example:
/opt/local/node/lib/node/cache.node
Placing the module in the recognized library path will remove the need to specify the full path in the JavaScript files. For
example, in JavaScript, it will be possible to write:
var globals = require(‘cache');
Instead of (for example):
var globals = require('/opt/local/build/default/cache');
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