Don't run "gclient sync" before you have a project checkout. "gclient" alone is enough to update depot_tools. Are you sure it's hanging? Probably it's just taking some time. Developing on Windows is slow and painful, you'll have to get used to that if you want to stick with Windows.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Alex Chesser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- -- 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.
