Please note that FreeBSD seems to be an edge case, with limited support for 
GN or GYP.
It may be a challenge to get either build up and running in their entirety.
NodeJS groups may be the place to ask.

On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 7:56:14 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I've only played around with depot_tools so far, but the main problem I 
> have seen so far is that cipd (from luci-go) does not support FreeBSD and 
> it pulls "packages" from some cloud URL that only contains win, darwin and 
> linux binaries, as far as I can tell.
>
> El lunes, 3 de febrero de 2020, 1:46:13 (UTC+1), Dominic Cerisano escribió:
>>
>> The issue seems to be that V8 recently moved from GYP to GN build 
>> engineering.
>> There does not seem to be a port of depot_tools to FreeBSD required for 
>> the GN build yet.
>>
>> So perhaps the NodeJS GYP build of V8 is the way to go. 
>> If you do manage to get an up to date port of depot_tools, stick with the 
>> official V8 GN build, and please share your solution.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 7:25:26 PM UTC-5, [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot! That Xapian Makefile example looks great.
>>>
>>> BTW, if I wanted to ask why depot_tools and/or cipd are not available 
>>> for platforms not linux, darwin or win, where should I ask?
>>>
>>> El lunes, 3 de febrero de 2020, 1:20:56 (UTC+1), Dominic Cerisano 
>>> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe look at how others have done it. Here is an older example based 
>>>> on the V8 GYP build.  There may be more up to date (GN) scripts elsewhere.
>>>> I think NodeJS build contains the V8 GYP build.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand/blob/master/contrib/freebsd/v8.shar
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 1:35:13 PM UTC-5, [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> According to https://v8.dev/docs/source-code the way to checkout v8's 
>>>>> source is with depot_tools which aren't available for other platforms 
>>>>> like 
>>>>> FreeBSD.
>>>>> What would be the correct step?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Antonio Huete
>>>>>
>>>>

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