Thats very cool! :)

Why is it that V8 can barely built without Python? Its just a bunch of C++ 
sources - or what makes it difficult?

I am currently trying to port nodejs + deps to a build system I am contributing 
to.

Kind regards, Ingwie
Am 05.03.2014 um 09:27 schrieb Austin William Wright 
<[email protected]>:

> About six months ago I ported the build system to a single Makefile, less 
> than 200 lines. The system became immensely more flexible and portable, but 
> it became hard to keep up with the build system changes, and it's nearly 
> impossible to compile V8 without python (I was linking against a shared 
> library so compiling V8 wasn't necessary).
> 
> I even rewrote tools/js2c.py in bash (157 lines - not foolproof, but good 
> enough for all the files in lib/). While the Makefile is awesome, this I did 
> just to be crazy. The entire thing is a complete hack.
> 
> I posted the files I wrote up at https://gist.github.com/Acubed/9363269
> 
> Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Austin Wright.
> 
> On Saturday, March 1, 2014 10:42:57 PM UTC-7, Kevin Ingwersen wrote:
> Hey. 
> 
> I am thinking forth and back about an issue I have. 
> When somebody on windows wants to build nodejs, they need python - and python 
> is all but small (100mb, to build a 20kb file...haha). So I was wondering: is 
> nodejs also build-able with an alternative build system? o.o 
> 
> Kind regards, Ingwie


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