for it. In other words, Node.js does not support running on End-of-Life (EoL)

platforms. This is true regardless of entries in the table below.

| Operating System | Architectures | Versions | Support Type | Notes |

| ---------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 ^[1](#fn1), Debian 9, EL 7 ^[2](#fn2) |

| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 3.10, musl >= 1.1.19 | Experimental | e.g. Alpine 3.8 |

| GNU/Linux | x86 | kernel >= 3.10, glibc >= 2.17 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 10 |

| GNU/Linux | arm64 | kernel >= 4.5, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, EL 7 ^[3](#fn3) |

| GNU/Linux | armv7 | kernel >= 4.14, glibc >= 2.24 | Tier 1 | e.g. Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 9 |

| GNU/Linux | armv6 | kernel >= 4.14, glibc >= 2.24 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 |

| GNU/Linux | ppc64le >=power8 | kernel >= 3.10.0, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 2 | e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 ^[1](#fn1), EL 7 ^[2](#fn2) |

| GNU/Linux | s390x | kernel >= 3.10.0, glibc >= 2.17 | Tier 2 | e.g. EL 7 ^[2](#fn2) |

| Windows | x64, x86 (WoW64) | >= Windows 8.1/2012 R2 | Tier 1 | ^{[4](#fn4),[5](#fn5)} |

| Windows | x86 (native) | >= Windows 8.1/2012 R2 | Tier 1 (running) / Experimental (compiling) ^[6](#fn6) | |

| Windows | x64, x86 | Windows Server 2012 (not R2) | Experimental | |

| Windows | arm64 | >= Windows 10 | Tier 2 (compiling) / Experimental (running) | |

| macOS | x64 | >= 10.13 | Tier 1 | For notes about compilation see ^[7](#fn7) |

| macOS | arm64 | >= 11 | Tier 1 | |

| SmartOS | x64 | >= 18 | Tier 2 | |

| AIX | ppc64be >=power7 | >= 7.2 TL04 | Tier 2 | |

| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 12.2 | Experimental | |

<em id="fn1">1</em>: GCC 8 is not provided on the base platform. Users will

need the

[Toolchain test builds PPA](https://launchpad.net/\~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test?field.series\_filter=xenial)

or similar to source a newer compiler.

<em id="fn2">2</em>: GCC 8 is not provided on the base platform. Users will

Binaries at <https://nodejs.org/download/release/> are produced on:

| Binary package | Platform and Toolchain |

| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| aix-ppc64 | AIX 7.2 TL04 on PPC64BE with GCC 8 |

| darwin-x64 | macOS 10.15, Xcode Command Line Tools 11 with -mmacosx-version-min=10.13 |

| darwin-arm64 (and .pkg) | macOS 11 (arm64), Xcode Command Line Tools 12 with -mmacosx-version-min=10.13 |

The `-j4` option will cause `make` to run 4 simultaneous compilation jobs which

may reduce build time. For more information, see the

[GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html\_node/Parallel.html).

The above requires that `python` resolves to a supported version of

Python. See [Prerequisites](#prerequisites).