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## Supported platforms

This list of supported platforms is current as of the branch / release to
This list of supported platforms is current as of the branch/release to
which it is attached.

### Input
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### Supported platforms

The community does not build or test against end of life distributions (EoL).
Thus we do not recommend that you use Node on end of life or unsupported platforms
The community does not build or test against end-of-life distributions (EoL).
Thus we do not recommend that you use Node on end-of-life or unsupported platforms
in production.

| System | Support type | Version | Architectures | Notes |
|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------|----------------------|------------------|
| GNU/Linux | Tier 1 | kernel >= 2.6.32, glibc >= 2.12 | x64, arm, arm64 | |
| macOS | Tier 1 | >= 10.10 | x64 | |
| Windows | Tier 1 | >= Windows 7 / 2008 R2 | x86, x64 | vs2017 |
| Windows | Tier 1 | >= Windows 7/2008 R2 | x86, x64 | vs2017 |
| SmartOS | Tier 2 | >= 15 < 16.4 | x86, x64 | see note1 |
| FreeBSD | Tier 2 | >= 10 | x64 | |
| GNU/Linux | Tier 2 | kernel >= 3.13.0, glibc >= 2.19 | ppc64le >=power8 | |
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*Note:* All prerequisites can be easily installed by following
[this bootstrapping guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/tools/bootstrap/README.md).

### Unix / macOS
### Unix/macOS

Prerequisites:

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* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer

On macOS you will need to install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running
On macOS, you will need to install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running
`xcode-select --install`. Alternatively, if you already have the full Xcode
installed, you can find them under the menu `Xcode -> Open Developer Tool ->
More Developer Tools...`. This step will install `clang`, `clang++`, and
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```console
$ sudo ./tools/macosx-firewall.sh
```
Running this script will add rules for the executable `node` in the out
Running this script will add rules for the executable `node` in the `out`
directory and the symbolic `node` link in the project's root directory.

On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, you may also need:
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> Release\node -e "console.log('Hello from Node.js', process.version)"
```

### Android / Android-based devices (e.g. Firefox OS)
### Android/Android-based devices (e.g. Firefox OS)

Although these instructions for building on Android are provided, please note
that Android is not an officially supported platform at this time. Patches to
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ICU in `deps/icu`. (The embedded `small-icu` included in the default
Node.js source does not include all locales.)

##### Unix / macOS:
##### Unix/macOS:

```console
$ ./configure --with-intl=full-icu --download=all
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The `Intl` object will not be available, nor some other APIs such as
`String.normalize`.

##### Unix / macOS:
##### Unix/macOS:

```console
$ ./configure --without-intl
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> .\vcbuild without-intl
```

#### Use existing installed ICU (Unix / macOS only):
#### Use existing installed ICU (Unix/macOS only):

```console
$ pkg-config --modversion icu-i18n && ./configure --with-intl=system-icu
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Download the file named something like `icu4c-**##.#**-src.tgz` (or
`.zip`).

##### Unix / macOS
##### Unix/macOS

From an already-unpacked ICU:
```console
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through which you get the file complies with the requirements
for a "secure installation" as described in section 6.6 in
the [user guide](https://openssl.org/docs/fips/UserGuide-2.0.pdf).
For evaluation/experimentation you can simply download and verify
For evaluation/experimentation, you can simply download and verify
`openssl-fips-x.x.x.tar.gz` from https://www.openssl.org/source/
2. Extract source to `openssl-fips` folder and `cd openssl-fips`
3. `./config`
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