pWinRunInNodeVersion

Program to run a script in any processor architecture and version of Node.js on Windows

Getting Started

1. Install pWinRunInNodeVersion globally via NPM.

npm install pwinruninnodeversion -g

Optionally: rename pwinruninnodeversion to pWinRunInNodeVersion: npm is unable to handle the complexity of uppercase characters in a module name. Node.js on Windows does not have this problem, so renaming the folder is not required for you to use the module.

2. Run your script in a specific Node.js processor architecture and version.

node-ia32 0.9.9 your-script arguments... node-x64 0.12.0 your-script arguments...

Notes

Usage

This program provides two short cuts: node-ia32 and node-x64 (and two aliases: node-x86 and node-amd64 respectively) that allow you to run the 32- and 64-bit versions of Node.js. Note that you must be running a 64-bit version of Windows to run a 64-bit version of Node.js.

The first argument passed to these scripts must be a version number. This may or may not contain a patch number, eg. (0.9.9, 0.9, 0.9.x) If a patch number is provided, that exact version of Node.js will be used. If no patch number is provided, any cached version of Node.js that has the requested mayor and minor version number will be used. If no such version is cached, the patch level 0 will be used (eg. 0.9.0 in this example).

In order to run the script, the relevant stand-alone node.exe binary is downloaded over a secure connection from node.js.org Is is cached in a sub-folder of the bin/ folder of your pRunInNodeVersion installation. The next time you want to run a script in the same version, the cached version will be used.

All arguments passed after the version number will be passed to node.exe, so you can do:

C:\>node-x86 0.10.10 -v
0.10.10

C:\>

License

This code is licensed under CC0 v1.0 Universal.