Nodejs is not building in buildroot because ‘va_list’ has not been declared

Question

I try to build an embedded linux with nodejs for Radxa Zero SBC. I included nodejs through Target packages ---> Interpreter languages and scripting > nodejs and NPM for the target. In the building process I get an error because of some missing variables. Therefore the compilation fails. I have a bootable image without nodejs. The exact same error occurs if I adjust the package buildroot-2022.11/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk to download and compile nodejs 18. Tried on Ubuntu 20.04 and Fedora 37. I tried to use other binutils and gcc version.

The build process fails at:

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FAILED: obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.bignum.o
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In file included from ../../deps/v8/src/base/numbers/bignum.cc:7:
../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.h:23:53: error: ‘va_list’ has not been declared
   23 |     VSNPrintF(Vector<char> str, const char* format, va_list args);
      |                                                     ^~~~~~~

and

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FAILED: obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.strings.o
...
In file included from ../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.cc:5:
../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.h:23:53: error: ‘va_list’ has not been declared
   23 |     VSNPrintF(Vector<char> str, const char* format, va_list args);
      |                                                     ^~~~~~~

I have absolutely no idea what to do. It seems some macros haven't been set so something is missing.

Full output:

aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[44/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.dtoa.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[45/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.bignum.o
FAILED: obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.bignum.o 
/home/andreas/buildroot_radxa/buildroot-2022.11/output/host/bin/aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++ -MMD -MF obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.bignum.o.d -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 -DNODE_OPENSSL_CONF_NAME=nodejs_conf -DV8_GYP_BUILD -DV8_TYPED_ARRAY_MAX_SIZE_IN_HEAP=64 -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_ARM64 -DV8_HAVE_TARGET_OS -DV8_TARGET_OS_LINUX '-DV8_EMBEDDER_STRING="-node.22"' -DENABLE_DISASSEMBLER -DV8_PROMISE_INTERNAL_FIELD_COUNT=1 -DENABLE_MINOR_MC -DOBJECT_PRINT -DV8_ATOMIC_OBJECT_FIELD_WRITES -DV8_ATOMIC_MARKING_STATE -DV8_ENABLE_LAZY_SOURCE_POSITIONS -DV8_USE_SIPHASH -DDISABLE_UNTRUSTED_CODE_MITIGATIONS -DV8_WIN64_UNWINDING_INFO -DV8_ENABLE_REGEXP_INTERPRETER_THREADED_DISPATCH -DV8_SNAPSHOT_COMPRESSION -DV8_ENABLE_WEBASSEMBLY -DV8_ALLOCATION_FOLDING -DV8_ALLOCATION_SITE_TRACKING -DV8_ADVANCED_BIGINT_ALGORITHMS -DBUILDING_V8_BASE_SHARED -I../../deps/v8 -I../../deps/v8/include -msign-return-address=all -pthread -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-return-type -fno-strict-aliasing -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -O3 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Os -g0 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -std=gnu++14  -c ../../deps/v8/src/base/numbers/bignum.cc -o obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.bignum.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
In file included from ../../deps/v8/src/base/numbers/bignum.cc:7:
../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.h:23:53: error: ‘va_list’ has not been declared
   23 |     VSNPrintF(Vector<char> str, const char* format, va_list args);
      |                                                     ^~~~~~~
[46/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.bounded-page-allocator.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[47/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/platform/v8_libbase.platform-posix-time.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[48/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.fixed-dtoa.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[49/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.ieee754.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[50/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.strtod.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[51/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/platform/v8_libbase.condition-variable.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[52/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.logging.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[53/2686] CC obj.host/deps/v8/third_party/zlib/v8_zlib.deflate.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[54/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/platform/v8_libbase.semaphore.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[55/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/platform/v8_libbase.mutex.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[56/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.fast-dtoa.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[57/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/numbers/v8_libbase.bignum-dtoa.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[58/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/sanitizer/v8_libbase.lsan-page-allocator.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[59/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.vlq-base64.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[60/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.page-allocator.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[61/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.strings.o
FAILED: obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.strings.o 
/home/andreas/buildroot_radxa/buildroot-2022.11/output/host/bin/aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++ -MMD -MF obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.strings.o.d -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 -DNODE_OPENSSL_CONF_NAME=nodejs_conf -DV8_GYP_BUILD -DV8_TYPED_ARRAY_MAX_SIZE_IN_HEAP=64 -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_ARM64 -DV8_HAVE_TARGET_OS -DV8_TARGET_OS_LINUX '-DV8_EMBEDDER_STRING="-node.22"' -DENABLE_DISASSEMBLER -DV8_PROMISE_INTERNAL_FIELD_COUNT=1 -DENABLE_MINOR_MC -DOBJECT_PRINT -DV8_ATOMIC_OBJECT_FIELD_WRITES -DV8_ATOMIC_MARKING_STATE -DV8_ENABLE_LAZY_SOURCE_POSITIONS -DV8_USE_SIPHASH -DDISABLE_UNTRUSTED_CODE_MITIGATIONS -DV8_WIN64_UNWINDING_INFO -DV8_ENABLE_REGEXP_INTERPRETER_THREADED_DISPATCH -DV8_SNAPSHOT_COMPRESSION -DV8_ENABLE_WEBASSEMBLY -DV8_ALLOCATION_FOLDING -DV8_ALLOCATION_SITE_TRACKING -DV8_ADVANCED_BIGINT_ALGORITHMS -DBUILDING_V8_BASE_SHARED -I../../deps/v8 -I../../deps/v8/include -msign-return-address=all -pthread -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-return-type -fno-strict-aliasing -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -O3 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Os -g0 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -std=gnu++14  -c ../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.cc -o obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.strings.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
In file included from ../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.cc:5:
../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.h:23:53: error: ‘va_list’ has not been declared
   23 |     VSNPrintF(Vector<char> str, const char* format, va_list args);
      |                                                     ^~~~~~~
[62/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.sys-info.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[63/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/platform/v8_libbase.time.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[64/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/utils/v8_libbase.random-number-generator.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[65/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/v8_libbase.region-allocator.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
[66/2686] CXX obj/deps/v8/src/base/platform/v8_libbase.platform-posix.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:128: node] Error 1
make[1]: *** [package/pkg-generic.mk:293: /home/andreas/buildroot_radxa/buildroot-2022.11/output/build/nodejs-16.18.1/.stamp_built] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:84: _all] Error 2

I tried to use other binutils and gcc version.

Perhaps the failing include file `../../deps/v8/src/base/strings.h` doesn't `#include `? — robertklep, Jan 25 '23 at 15:18

mister_kanister · Answer 1 · 2023-01-30T14:33:47.507

The comment from @robertklep helped to resolve the issue. Unfortunately produced another error (FAILED: obj/src/node.node_main.o ).

As suggested in the comment modify the file:

vim buildroot-2022.11/output/build/nodejs-16.18.1/deps/v8/src/base/strings.h

Modify:

[...]
#ifndef V8_BASE_STRINGS_H_
#define V8_BASE_STRINGS_H_


#include <cstdarg> // <-- Add this line 


#include "src/base/base-export.h"
#include "src/base/macros.h"
#include "src/base/vector.h"
[...]

Still I'm curious why this error occurs since the source code is downloaded from upstream by Buildroot.

New error:

[9/23] CXX obj/src/node.node_main.o
FAILED: obj/src/node.node_main.o 
/home/andreas/buildroot_radxa/buildroot-2022.11/output/host/bin/aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++ -MMD -MF obj/src/node.node_main.o.d -DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -DV8_IMMINENT_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 -DNODE_OPENSSL_CONF_NAME=nodejs_conf -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS '-DNODE_ARCH="arm64"' '-DNODE_PLATFORM="linux"' -DNODE_WANT_INTERNALS=1 -D__POSIX__ -DNODE_USE_V8_PLATFORM=1 -DHAVE_OPENSSL=1 -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10000000L -I../../src -I../../deps/v8/include -I../../deps/histogram/src -I../../deps/uvwasi/include -I../../deps/llhttp/include -I../../deps/brotli/c/include -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -msign-return-address=all -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O1 -g0 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -std=gnu++14  -c ../../src/node_main.cc -o obj/src/node.node_main.o
aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-g++.br_real: warning: switch ‘-msign-return-address=all’ is no longer supported
../../src/node_main.cc:92:10: fatal error: sys/auxv.h: No such file or directory
   92 | #include <sys/auxv.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~

I was compiling against the uclibc library which has no sys/auxv.h. I needed to make some adjustments manually in buildroot-2022.11/output/build/nodejs-16.18.1/src/node_main.cc.

#include <sys/auxv.h> // <-- delete this line


// delete this aswell since the function getauxval() is from sys/auxv.h
#if defined(__linux__)
  node::per_process::linux_at_secure = getauxval(AT_SECURE);
#endif

At the end of the day I would recommend to create a buildroot package where you download a precompiled version of nodejs.

Nodejs is not building in buildroot because ‘va_list’ has not been declared

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