I have been building v8 on my OSX Lion laptop without issue. I did an SVN update yesterday and saw the Makefile and GYP based build system is now in trunk. Congrats on the move forward!
Anyhow, I ran into what I consider serious issues with the GYP build system using OSX. I thought I'd share these here. 1) There's no documentation on how to use the build/gyp system to create Makefile-x64 on OSX. 2) Using build/gyp created an XCode project only. So I fired up XCode and loaded in the project. The only options I could see in XCode for building V8 are ia32 versions - no X64. The project did build, which is great. 3) I found a WWW page/link to a thread in one of the chromium Google groups that had instructions for building chromium from the command line under OSX. I tried those for V8, and it looked like the build was proceeding nicely until the end, when it spewed far more compilation errors than my console's scrollback buffer handles. I think it was trying to link with ia32 libraries, even though I was building using "make x64.release" ... SCONS still works, so I was able to build an x64 libv8.a. Cheers -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
