Compiling the drivers causes a compiler error on c++ compilers (or at least, g++):

In file included from /home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/bson.h:6,
from ../bson.cc:4:
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h:24:2: error: #error must have a 64bit int type
In file included from /home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/bson.h:6,
from ../bson.cc:4:
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h: In function 'void bson_swap_endian64(void*, const void*)':
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h:50: error: invalid conversion from 'const void*' to 'const char*'
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h:51: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'char*'
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h: In function 'void bson_swap_endian32(void*, const void*)':
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h:64: error: invalid conversion from 'const void*' to 'const char*'
/home/orlando/projects/node-mongodb/mongo-c-driver/src/platform_hacks.h:65: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'char*'

Explicitly casting the arguments of these functions to (char *) seems to make it work.