V8 is using Gyp https://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/BuildingWithGYP
"GYP is a meta build system of sorts, as it generates build files for a number of other build systems. How you build therefore depends on what "back-end" build system and compiler you're using." On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Kevin Ingwersen <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
