I think that would be rather difficult, since such a person would need some level of control over the project, including access to those people who know how to do it in the first place. Which is a self-referencing problem, is it not? :)
May I ask why you choose to depend on obfuscating custom tools such as depot_tools and those python scripts? If you were to use more standard stuff, like CMake and plain-old-git commands (or even MSBuild), then it might be feasible for us to work out what is going wrong and give you some advice. What is so special about a Windows build of V8 that it cannot be built with a “normal” project/solution file? Although the GUI side of Visual Studio drives me crazy with some of its weird behaviour, it is a very powerful build environment and the Microsoft compiler continues to be pretty stable and well-documented. Dan 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:mike.moen...@rtssigns.com> > wrote: Well said Dan! It’s a mess. Mike M From: v8-dev@googlegroups.com <mailto:v8-dev@googlegroups.com> [mailto:v8-dev@googlegroups.com <mailto:v8-dev@googlegroups.com> ] On Behalf Of danny.p...@gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:v8-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . 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