Hi Michael, thanks for investigating. I will add these information to the wiki post. What branch/commit have you build following your instructions?
Cheers, Michael On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 8:07:28 PM UTC+2, Michael Collins wrote: > > In follow up to my question a couple of weeks ago, I finally came back to > the v8 source code and managed to get it to build with Visual Studio 2013. > The steps outlined in the documentation didn't work exactly. > > First, I have Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 RC installed. When running the > "python build\gyp_v8" step, the generated solution and vcxproj files all > targeted Visual Studio 2015 RC. I had to set the GYP_MSVS_VERSION > environment variable to "2013" to get the right project files and solutions > to be created. > > Second, I did not have python.exe in my path. I thought that the python in > depot_tools would be used, but that wasn't the case. During the build, I > received errors that js2c couldn't run because "python" could not be found. > You need to add the path to python.exe in your PATH environment variable > before running the build script. > > Third, I typically build with PowerShell, but this didn't work in my case. > I had to run the build script using the Developer Command Prompt for VS2013. > > I hope that this helps anyone that is trying to build v8 on Windows. > > Michael Collins > -- -- 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.
