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
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