The reason I wanted to build under cygwin is because I have an application linked with v8 that also links with a number of other 3rd party libraries that may not compile under Windows easily.
On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Jakob Kummerow wrote: > 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 -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
