It might be that the old ISA the rPi uses is just too old to run V8. Generally, the devs only care about the devices that can also run Android.
On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 5:40:30 AM UTC-9, Milan Pandurov wrote: > > I am having a problem with cross compiling google v8 libraries for > raspberry pi, and constantly getting "Illegal instruction" error when > compiling official sample from site. These are the steps i followed: > > 1. Downloaded cross compile https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools/ > 2. Cloned v8 git https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git > 3. Exported CXX LINK point to arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ from cross > compile tools. > 4. run make arm.release armv7=false hardfp=on snapshot=off armfpu=vfp > armfloatabi=hard -j5 > 5. Copied generated executable shell and d8 from out/arm.release > directory to pi (Raspbian kernel version 3.6.11) and it WORKS. These steps > prove that cross compilation toolchain is functional. > > Problem occurs when trying to run other cross-compiled software that is > linked to v8 libraries. For example sample code from > https://developers.google.com/v8/get_started#intro. Code is > cross-compiled with this command (same as example, just changed compiler) > > arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -I. hello_world.cc -o hello_world -Wl,--start-group > out/x64.release/obj.target/{tools/gyp/libv8_{base,libbase,snapshot,libplatform},third_party/icu/libicu{uc,i18n,data}}.a > -Wl,--end-group -lrt -pthread > > > When i copy that code to pi and run it i get SIGILL (Illegal instruction). > > Note: cross compiled software that doesn't use v8 libraries works fine. > Also x64 v8 libraries on host computer work fine. > > On newer kernel versions shell and d8 were also throwing SIGILL but than > i switched to older version 3.6.11 (problems with newer kernel > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/IPT9EeYK9bg) and they > started working, but compiled sample code is still showed same issues. > > Did anyone have similar experience? Any suggestion on how to overcome this > problem? > -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" 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.
