Yeah that’s what i was trying to say On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 21:55, Mike Moening <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well said Dan! > > It’s a mess. > > > > Mike M > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *[email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 15, 2018 1:39 PM > *To:* v8-dev > *Subject:* Re: [v8-dev] Build v8 > > > > For what it's worth, I spent several days a month or two ago trying to get > V8 to build on Windows and eventually gave up (I was hoping to step through > the source to work something out). > > Your Windows documentation definitely could do with someone actually > trying it from scratch on a clean machine, and documenting exactly what > they did without any jargon/acronyms. The existing documentation gives the > impression that it is a Linux-script with a few comments added for Windows > by people "guessing" what they think they might have "tweaked" on their PC > to make it work. > > Things like this step: > > 5. tools/dev/v8gen.py x64.release > > tells me that you are assuming that I am a python developer and have set > up the file associations accordingly. I am not, so Windows merely prompts > me to ask how I want to open the file "tools\dev\v8gen.py". > > I do have several instances of python.exe on my machine (one of them is > yours). Do you want me to run the python.bat file, here? The contents of > that file look a bit weird to me. It looks like it's trying to find a file > called "%~dp0python_bin_reldir.txt" (yes, there's only one '%' in there). > This, with my admittedly limited understanding of Windows batch command > syntax, seems to be gibberish. Who is ~dp0? That's a Unix home folder, not > a Windows one, surely? > > I'll stop there; hopefully you get the point that you need to write some > Windows documentation. Please don't try to "improve" what you have, just > get someone who understands Windows and has a clean machine to write one > from scratch! > > > > Thanks :) > > > > Dan > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
