Step by step instructions to install NodeJS on Windows

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Update 10/05/2011: If you are installing on Windows 7 64 bit, please read this comment. Thanks idealogue!

Update 09/20/2011: I was able to successfully install the latest NodeJS stable version (v0.4.12) so, I am updating these instructions to reflect that.

If you are planning on upgrading NodeJS from an older version to a newer one, just follow from Step 7.

I just had NodeJS successfully installed on Windows XP using Cygwin and thought this might be of use to someone who wants to do the same.

Pre-requisites: Cygwin with Python & some additional packages (we’ll go over that in a bit)

1. Double click Cygwin’s setup.exe and continue till you get to select packages window
2. Select Python

   

3. Select Make

   

4. Select G++

   

5. Select wget(not really required but, good to have for downloading archives & stuffs )

   

6. Click next and complete the installation
7. From cygwin type the following commands. Note: At the time of this writing v0.2.0 is the current NodeJS version.

   1	wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.12.tar.gz

   2	tar xvf node-v0.4.12.tar.gz

   3	cd node-v0.4.12/

   4	./configure

   5

   make

   6	make install

8. If all goes well, then you should see NodeJS’s version when you type the following command.

   1	node --version

   2

   v0.4.12

Update:

For Windows 7 & Windows Vista users, please run rebaseall with -v option as suggested in this comment.
http://boxysystems.com/index.php/step-by-step-instructions-to-install-nodejs-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-617
Thanks Vladimir for your suggestion

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