V8 is under active development, so for best results you should generally always use the latest version ;-)
We generally consider each and every failing test a bug. So if you encounter failing tests with the latest version, please do report back with more details. We only release versions with no known test failures. One caveat, though: a timeout is treated as a failure as well. Timeouts can happen on slow hardware, emulators, etc; I'm not sure if cygwin is slow enough to fall into this category. If all your failures are timeouts, though, you needn't worry about correct functionality. Which leads to a question: why do you want to run V8 in cygwin at all? It runs natively on Windows as well, so if you care for performance, you can just compile the regular Windows version. I'm not sure if it's possible to run the test suite outside cygwin, but I do know that inside cygwin, running the test suite takes about 3x as much time as on Linux. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 18:10, Michael Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried building V8 under cygwin a couple weeks ago. The g++ compiler ran > incredibly slow, and I could not get a real clean build. > > I searched about the issue and came up with posts like this: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-10/msg00054.html > > And ultimately found some official looking bug report (don't have the URL, > sorry) saying it wouldn't be fixed. > > Good luck > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:39 AM, TSV wrote: > > Hi, > Am new to this group and searched around a little bit on latest news about > Cygwin support, but was not able to arrive at a conclusion. > > What version of V8 is known to work good on the Cygwin platform (I use > Cygwin verison 1.7.9) ? Are there any known issues ? > I've used V8 3.1.8.8, but when I ran the cctest suite on my Cygwin > environment about 30 out of 1902 tests failed. I can provide more details on > the failed tests if somebody is interested in looking at, but would like to > know if there is a recommended version of V8 for Cygwin. > > Thanks, > TSV > > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > > > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
