Add a compilation script

.github/workflows/scheduled-builds.yml

@@ -16,4 +16,10 @@ jobs:
         run: apt-get update && apt-get --yes upgrade
 
       - name: Install building tools
-        run: apt-get install --yes python3 python3-pip gcc g++ make
+        run: apt-get install --yes git python3 python3-pip gcc g++ make ninja nodejs
+
+      - name: Clone the repo
+        run: git clone https://github.com/devraymondsh/libnode-distributable
+
+      - name: Run the script
+        run: node index.js

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+node-*
+*.tar.gz

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
+}

index.js

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import os from "node:os";
+import syncFs from "node:fs";
+import fs from "node:fs/promises";
+import { Readable } from "node:stream";
+import { finished } from "node:stream/promises";
+import { spawnSync, spawn } from "node:child_process";
+
+const constructSourceTarballName = (version) => `node-${version}.tar.gz`;
+const constructSourceTarballDirName = (version) => `node-${version}`;
+
+const constructSourceDownloadLink = (version) =>
+  `https://github.com/nodejs/node/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz`;
+
+const removeTheVCharacter = (str) => str.replace("v", "");
+
+const nodeIndexUrl = "https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json";
+const getLatestNodeVersion = async () => {
+  const res = await fetch(nodeIndexUrl);
+  const jsonData = await res.json();
+
+  return removeTheVCharacter(jsonData[0]["version"]);
+};
+
+const getLatestPublishedVersion = async () =>
+  removeTheVCharacter(await fs.readFile("version.txt", { encoding: "utf8" }));
+
+const isANewerVersion = (oldVer, newVer) => {
+  const oldParts = oldVer.split(".");
+  const newParts = newVer.split(".");
+
+  for (var i = 0; i < newParts.length; i++) {
+    const a = ~~newParts[i]; // parse int
+    const b = ~~oldParts[i]; // parse int
+
+    if (a > b) return true;
+    if (a < b) return false;
+  }
+
+  return false;
+};
+
+const spawnAsync = (program, args, cwd) =>
+  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const child = spawn(program, args, { cwd });
+
+    child.stdout.on("data", (chunk) => console.log(chunk.toString()));
+    child.stderr.on("data", (chunk) => {
+      console.error(chunk.toString());
+      reject(chunk);
+    });
+
+    child.on("close", (code) => resolve(code));
+  });
+
+const latestNodeVersion = await getLatestNodeVersion();
+
+if (!isANewerVersion(await getLatestPublishedVersion(), latestNodeVersion)) {
+  console.log("Nothing to do!");
+  process.exit(0);
+}
+
+const tarballName = constructSourceTarballName(latestNodeVersion);
+if (!syncFs.existsSync(tarballName)) {
+  const stream = syncFs.createWriteStream(tarballName);
+  const { body } = await fetch(constructSourceDownloadLink(latestNodeVersion));
+  await finished(Readable.fromWeb(body).pipe(stream));
+}
+
+const tarballDir = constructSourceTarballDirName(latestNodeVersion);
+if (!syncFs.existsSync(tarballDir)) {
+  const { stderr } = spawnSync("tar", ["-xvf", `${tarballName}`]);
+  if (stderr.length > 0) {
+    console.error(stderr);
+    process.exit(0);
+  }
+}
+
+await spawnAsync("./configure", ["--ninja", "--shared", "--debug"], tarballDir);
+
+const coreCount = os.cpus().length;
+const threadCount = coreCount * 2;
+
+await spawnAsync("make", [`-j${threadCount}`], tarballDir);

package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "name": "libnode-distributable",
+  "type": "module",
+  "description": "",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "ISC"
+}

version.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+v21.7.1