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authorJagannath Bhat <jagannathbhat1998@gmail.com>2018-10-30 23:01:18 +0530
committerRich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>2018-11-01 19:03:21 -0700
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23976 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
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@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ platforms in production.
by Joyent. SmartOS images >= 16.4 are not supported because
GCC 4.8 runtime libraries are not available in their pkgsrc repository
-<em id="fn2">2</em>: Tier 1 support for building on Windows is only on 64 bit
- hosts. Support is experimental for 32 bit hosts.
+<em id="fn2">2</em>: Tier 1 support for building on Windows is only on 64-bit
+ hosts. Support is experimental for 32-bit hosts.
<em id="fn3">3</em>: On Windows, running Node.js in Windows terminal emulators
like `mintty` requires the usage of [winpty](https://github.com/rprichard/winpty)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ platforms in production.
### Supported toolchains
-Depending on host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary.
+Depending on the host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary.
#### Unix
@@ -127,11 +127,11 @@ Depending on host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary.
#### Windows
-* Visual Studio 2017 with the Windows 10 SDK on a 64 bit host.
+* Visual Studio 2017 with the Windows 10 SDK on a 64-bit host.
#### OpenSSL asm support
-OpenSSL-1.1.0 requires the following asssembler version for use of asm
+OpenSSL-1.1.0 requires the following assembler version for use of asm
support on x86_64 and ia32.
* gas (GNU assembler) version 2.23 or higher
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ These core dumps are useful for debugging when provided with the
corresponding original debug binary and system information.
Reading the core dump requires `gdb` built on the same platform the core dump
-was captured on (i.e. 64 bit `gdb` for `node` built on a 64 bit system, Linux
+was captured on (i.e. 64-bit `gdb` for `node` built on a 64-bit system, Linux
`gdb` for `node` built on Linux) otherwise you will get errors like
`not in executable format: File format not recognized`.
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ $ ./configure --without-intl
$ pkg-config --modversion icu-i18n && ./configure --with-intl=system-icu
```
-If you are cross compiling, your `pkg-config` must be able to supply a path
+If you are cross-compiling, your `pkg-config` must be able to supply a path
that works for both your host and target environments.
#### Build with a specific ICU:
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ This version of Node.js does not support FIPS.
## Building Node.js with external core modules
It is possible to specify one or more JavaScript text files to be bundled in
-the binary as builtin modules when building Node.js.
+the binary as built-in modules when building Node.js.
### Unix/macOS