joyent/node — Issue #2414: Native C++ module filenames should include the platform in the name
Author: dobesv
Created: 2011-12-25 05:18:45+00:00
State: open

When building native modules from C++, putting the platform in the name would allow the same module folder to be used for multiple platforms.

So instead of just contextify.node the file would be named contextify-win32-ia32 for a windows machine and contextify-linux2-ia32 for a linux machine.