I saw in the bits of Google search results that NodeJS has some patches for gyp build. Maybe it's worth a look at those to see if they're good to implement in trunk.
While I believe ia32 support for OSX is clearly needed, Lion is X64 and it seems like Chrome should be X64 for Lion at least. I do hope that X64 build support is a blocker. ;-) On Sep 6, 7:49 am, Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 16:31, mykes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been building v8 on my OSX Lion laptop without issue. I did an > > SVN update yesterday and saw the Makefile and GYP based build system > > is now in trunk. Congrats on the move forward! > > > Anyhow, I ran into what I consider serious issues with the GYP build > > system using OSX. I thought I'd share these here. > > > 1) There's no documentation on how to use the build/gyp system to > > create Makefile-x64 on OSX. > > Yeah, it's on my to-do list to write some documentation. > > > 2) Using build/gyp created an XCode project only. So I fired up XCode > > and loaded in the project. The only options I could see in XCode for > > building V8 are ia32 versions - no X64. > > Also known. Our GYP based build doesn't do 64bit builds on Mac. Not sure > when someone will get around to adding such support; the V8 team's > priorities are largely based on what Chromium needs... > > We happily accept patches ;-) > > > The project did build, which > > is great. > > 3) I found a WWW page/link to a thread in one of the chromium Google > > groups that had instructions for building chromium from the command > > line under OSX. I tried those for V8, and it looked like the build > > was proceeding nicely until the end, when it spewed far more > > compilation errors than my console's scrollback buffer handles. I > > think it was trying to link with ia32 libraries, even though I was > > building using "make x64.release" ... > > I assume you're talking about GYP_GENERATORS=make. That's precisely what the > V8 documentation would say if it had been written yet. And as I wrote above, > 64bit builds are not supported by the GYP build currently. > > > SCONS still works, so I was able to build an x64 libv8.a. > > Yes, SCons will continue to work until we officially deprecate it. Before > that happens, we need to be satisfied with the capabilities of the GYP based > build. Not sure if 64bit builds on Mac count as a blocker for that. > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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
