I’m looking not to develop for v8 but just to build it... have some things to test on it
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 00:43, 'Jakob Kummerow' via v8-dev < v8-dev@googlegroups.com> wrote: > We are aware that our Windows instructions are not as well-maintained as > those for Linux/Mac. As far as I know, nobody on the team uses Windows for > development regularly. An additional difficulty is that we share a lot of > our infrastructure with the rest of the Chromium project, so sometimes when > they change shared things our documentation lags behind until someone > notices (e.g. the DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN thing is such a case, it is > documented here: > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#install > but not yet on the V8 wiki). > > If any one of you from the community who wants to develop V8 on Windows > would volunteer to contribute and maintain well-tested instructions, that > would certainly be appreciated by the rest of the community :-) > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:09 AM dan Med <litokis.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah that’s what i was trying to say >> >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 21:55, Mike Moening <mike.moen...@rtssigns.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Well said Dan! >>> >>> It’s a mess. >>> >>> >>> >>> Mike M >>> >>> *From:* v8-dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:v8-dev@googlegroups.com] *On >>> Behalf Of *danny.p...@gmail.com >>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 15, 2018 1:39 PM >>> *To:* v8-dev >>> *Subject:* Re: [v8-dev] Build v8 >>> >>> >>> >>> For what it's worth, I spent several days a month or two ago trying to >>> get V8 to build on Windows and eventually gave up (I was hoping to step >>> through the source to work something out). >>> >>> Your Windows documentation definitely could do with someone actually >>> trying it from scratch on a clean machine, and documenting exactly what >>> they did without any jargon/acronyms. The existing documentation gives the >>> impression that it is a Linux-script with a few comments added for Windows >>> by people "guessing" what they think they might have "tweaked" on their PC >>> to make it work. >>> >>> Things like this step: >>> >>> 5. tools/dev/v8gen.py x64.release >>> >>> tells me that you are assuming that I am a python developer and have set >>> up the file associations accordingly. I am not, so Windows merely prompts >>> me to ask how I want to open the file "tools\dev\v8gen.py". >>> >>> I do have several instances of python.exe on my machine (one of them is >>> yours). Do you want me to run the python.bat file, here? The contents of >>> that file look a bit weird to me. It looks like it's trying to find a file >>> called "%~dp0python_bin_reldir.txt" (yes, there's only one '%' in there). >>> This, with my admittedly limited understanding of Windows batch command >>> syntax, seems to be gibberish. Who is ~dp0? That's a Unix home folder, not >>> a Windows one, surely? >>> >>> I'll stop there; hopefully you get the point that you need to write some >>> Windows documentation. Please don't try to "improve" what you have, just >>> get someone who understands Windows and has a clean machine to write one >>> from scratch! >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks :) >>> >>> >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> v8-dev mailing list >>> v8-dev@googlegroups.com >>> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "v8-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to v8-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> v8-dev mailing list >>> v8-dev@googlegroups.com >>> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "v8-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to v8-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> -- >> v8-dev mailing list >> v8-dev@googlegroups.com >> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "v8-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to v8-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- > v8-dev mailing list > v8-dev@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to v8-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- v8-dev mailing list v8-dev@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. 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