I was able to use make on Mac (at least for ia32 build, x64 doesn't work) by invoking it like this: GYP_GENERATORS=make make ia32.<target>
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 15:53, mykes <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw in the bits of Google search results that NodeJS has some > patches for gyp build. Maybe it's worth a look at those to see if > they're good to implement in trunk. > > While I believe ia32 support for OSX is clearly needed, Lion is X64 > and it seems like Chrome should be X64 for Lion at least. > > I do hope that X64 build support is a blocker. > > ;-) > > > On Sep 6, 7:49 am, Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 16:31, mykes <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Yeah, it's on my to-do list to write some documentation. >> >> > 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. >> >> Also known. Our GYP based build doesn't do 64bit builds on Mac. Not sure >> when someone will get around to adding such support; the V8 team's >> priorities are largely based on what Chromium needs... >> >> We happily accept patches ;-) >> >> > 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" ... >> >> I assume you're talking about GYP_GENERATORS=make. That's precisely what the >> V8 documentation would say if it had been written yet. And as I wrote above, >> 64bit builds are not supported by the GYP build currently. >> >> > SCONS still works, so I was able to build an x64 libv8.a. >> >> Yes, SCons will continue to work until we officially deprecate it. Before >> that happens, we need to be satisfied with the capabilities of the GYP based >> build. Not sure if 64bit builds on Mac count as a blocker for that. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- >> > v8-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> >http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
