This project is an effort to create a custom SpiderMonkey runtime that has libuv built-in. This will give it very node.js-like semantics, but using a different JavaScript engine.

Currently, the project is very alpha and exploratory.

Come to #luvmonkey on freenode irc to discuss any questions.

At the moment it's only been tested on Ubuntu.

You need to build spidermonkey on your own. Here are quick instructions.

First download mozilla-central (the repo that contains spidermonkey). If you have good internet, use the mecurial client, if not, you can download a roughly 100mb tarball of the latest revision at http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central

Once downloaded, go to the js folder and build spidermonkey as a static library

cd $HOME/mozilla-central/js/src
autoconf2.13
./configure --disable-shared-js
make -j 4 # or however many cores you have

Once you have SpiderMonkey, link it in the deps folder of luvmonkey.

cd $HOME/luvmonkey/deps
ln -s $HOME/mozilla-central

Then building luvmonkey is super easy. Simply go to the luvmonkey source tree and do the normal configure;make dance. (Requires python installed since we use gyp)

cd $HOME/luvmonkey
./configure
make -j4 # or however many cores you have
# Test it
./out/Debug/luvmonkey test.js