This is not a direct answer to your question, but we already host prebuilt `d8` binaries for Linux on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. We plan on doing the same for other operating systems: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5918 By using a precompiled binary, you could bypass compiling from source together.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Edd Barrett <vex...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I raised this as a bug, but was asked to re-post here. > > For a benchmarking experiment I need to build a frozen version of V8. For > most VMs this means just checking out a specific git version of the code > and building it. For V8 it is complicated by the depot_tools system. I've > yet to find a reliable way to do this. > > In the past, I've gotten by with cloning a specific version of depot > tools, fetching V8, then walking the dependencies resetting the git > versions of everything to a fixed date (this hack is needed because `fetch` > gets moving targets). When this stopped working (it was a hack anyway), I > resorted to rolling my own tarballs, which is not really ideal either. > > Is there an official way to build an frozen version of V8? How do you guys > build (e.g.) V8-5.8.283.32 and using the dependencies of the time of that > release? > > Without the ability to do this, it's difficult to conduct repeatable > benchmarking experiments on V8. > > Thanks > > -- > -- > v8-users mailing list > v8-users@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Mathias Bynens | V8 | Google Germany GmbH | Erika-Mann-Str. 33, 80636 München Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. Falls sie diese fälschlicherweise erhalten haben sollten, leiten Sie diese bitte nicht an jemand anderes weiter, löschen Sie alle Kopien und Anhänge davon und lassen Sie mich bitte wissen, dass die E-Mail an die falsche Person gesendet wurde. This e-mail is confidential. If you received this communication by mistake, please don’t forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it has gone to the wrong person. -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
