The description for the --link-module configuration option is as
follows:
$ ./configure --help | grep -A 5 'link-module'
--link-module=LINKED_MODULE
Path to a JS file to be bundled in the binary as a
builtin. This module will be referenced by path
without extension; e.g. /root/x/y.js will be
referenced via require('root/x/y'). Can be used
multiple times
This lead me to think that it was possible to specify a file like this:
$ ./configure --link-module=something.js
$ NODE_DEBUG=mkcodecache make -j8
This will lead to a compilation error as an entry in the source_ map in
node_javascript.cc will end up having an empty string as its key:
source_.emplace("", UnionBytes{_raw, 105});
This will then be used by CodeCacheBuilder when it iterates over the
module ids, which will lead to the following compilation errors:
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:12:23: warning:
ISO C++17 does not allow a decomposition group to be
empty [-Wempty-decomposition]
static const uint8_t [] = {
^
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:12:22: warning:
decomposition declarations are a C++17 extension [-Wc++17-extensions]
static const uint8_t [] = {
^~
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:12:1: error:
decomposition declaration cannot be declared 'static'
static const uint8_t [] = {
^~~~~~
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:12:22: error:
decomposition declaration cannot be declared with type 'const uint8_t'
(aka 'const unsigned char'); declared type must be 'auto' or
reference to 'auto'
static const uint8_t [] = {
^
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:12:22: error:
excess elements in scalar initializer
static const uint8_t [] = {
^
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:660:7: error:
expected expression
,
^
/node/out/Release/obj/gen/node_code_cache.cc:661:24: error:
no matching function for call to 'arraysize'
static_cast<int>(arraysize()), policy
^~~~~~~~~
../src/util.h:667:18: note: candidate function template not viable:
requires 1 argument, but 0 were provided
constexpr size_t arraysize(const T (&)[N]) {
^
2 warnings and 5 errors generated.
This commit suggests that passing a single file be allowed by modifying
tools/js2c.py, or alternatively raise an Exception with an message that
indicates the cause of this.