And having looked through the bash and batch files on windows, it looks like running
gclient config https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git gclient sync will allow the user to proceed as normally On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:53:14 PM UTC-5, Alex Chesser wrote: > > So the first issue I've run into is as follows. > > I've downloaded the depot_tools, I've added them to the END of my path, > I've opened a new cmd shell and run `gclient` and this hangs after echoing > the "downloading python" statement. > > If instead I run this within a git bash window I first see help content > > achesser@ACHESSER ~ >> >> $ gclient >> >> Usage: gclient.py <command> [options] >> >> >>> Meta checkout manager supporting both Subversion and GIT. >> >> and running other possible commands appear to give me the following > errors: > > achesser@ACHESSER ~$ gclient sync >> Error: client not configured; see 'gclient config' >> > > >> achesser@ACHESSER ~ $ gclient config >> Usage: gclient.py config [options] [url] [safesync url] >> gclient.py: error: Inconsistent arguments. Use either --spec or one or 2 >> args > > > If there are any tips for dealing with this I'd appreciate it. It appears > that the instructions say > http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools step 3 says > > "you may encounter bugs from time to time" > > :) > > > > > On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:01:31 PM UTC-5, Alex Chesser wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> According to step one of the contributing wiki >> https://code.google.com/p/v8-wiki/wiki/Contributing the first step is to >> reach out to the mailing list. I'm just getting started, have the code >> checked out (though not actually according to the instructions yet). >> >> I'm hoping to test that my code eventually works within the chrome >> browser, which may require ALSO checking out canary and building that with >> a link to my own version of V8. >> >> Hopefully the steps as indicated in the readme are flawless and work the >> first time (even when you're using a windows machine and don't necessarily >> have access to apt-get) but I suppose if I have problems I'll ask them >> here. >> >> Thanks! >> > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" 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/d/optout.
