On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Dan Pike <danny.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am very interested in helping you sort out the Windows builds, and I do > appreciate that you have to support many operating systems. However, I am > worried that I don’t understand what is going on inside those black boxes > (“gclient”, “ninja” etc). > > > > Many other cross-platform projects seem to be happy to work with using > cmake-based build environments along with detailed descriptions of the > dependencies. In my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience, trying to > maintain custom tools that people don’t understand often leads to more > problems than it solves, unless you are able to put in a lot of effort to > make them cope with all the ways that people work. For everything else, I > prefer to KISS and spend all of that effort on good documentation, instead. > > > > So, back to the underlying issue… > > > > With your detailed understanding of the internals of the depot tools, can > you explain what they are doing that you can’t do with “git –recursive” and > “cmake”? > > > > Do you also understand why, on my machine, ninja appears to build > everything, all the tests pass and d8 works but it: > > > > 1. produces two libraries (v8_libplatform.lib and v8_libbase.lib) that > Microsoft Visual Studio tells me are corrupt, and > 2. doesn’t produce a v8.dll at all, as far as I can tell > > See https://crbug.com/v8/8017. It sounds like you may be missing 'is_clang = false' for VS-compatible libraries. > > 1. > > ? > > > > I’d also love to be able to experiment with different compiler settings, > e.g. whether to use static or dynamic runtime. How do I do that with v8gen? > GN flags are documented, run `gn args out/debug --list`. You'll find the options for static builds there. > > > 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.
