build: configure --shared

Add configure flag for building a shared library that can be
embedded in other applications (like Electron). Add flags
--without-bundled-v8 and --without-v8-platform to control V8
dependencies used.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6994
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d622a6f0625..879c12b4960 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ from gyp.common import GetFlavor
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(root_dir, 'tools', 'configure.d'))
 import nodedownload
 
+# imports in tools/
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(root_dir, 'tools'))
+import getmoduleversion
+
 # parse our options
 parser = optparse.OptionParser()
 
@@ -420,6 +424,26 @@ parser.add_option('--without-inspector',
     dest='without_inspector',
     help='disable experimental V8 inspector support')
 
+parser.add_option('--shared',
+    action='store_true',
+    dest='shared',
+    help='compile shared library for embedding node in another project. ' +
+         '(This mode is not officially supported for regular applications)')
+
+parser.add_option('--without-v8-platform',
+    action='store_true',
+    dest='without_v8_platform',
+    default=False,
+    help='do not initialize v8 platform during node.js startup. ' +
+         '(This mode is not officially supported for regular applications)')
+
+parser.add_option('--without-bundled-v8',
+    action='store_true',
+    dest='without_bundled_v8',
+    default=False,
+    help='do not use V8 includes from the bundled deps folder. ' +
+         '(This mode is not officially supported for regular applications)')
+
 (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
 
 # Expand ~ in the install prefix now, it gets written to multiple files.
@@ -810,6 +834,10 @@ def configure_node(o):
     o['variables']['node_target_type'] = 'static_library'
 
   o['variables']['node_no_browser_globals'] = b(options.no_browser_globals)
+  o['variables']['node_shared'] = b(options.shared)
+  o['variables']['node_use_v8_platform'] = b(not options.without_v8_platform)
+  o['variables']['node_use_bundled_v8'] = b(not options.without_bundled_v8)
+  o['variables']['node_module_version'] = int(getmoduleversion.get_version())
 
   if options.linked_module:
     o['variables']['library_files'] = options.linked_module