Well I am not entirely sure what went wrong but when I re-fetched into a different directory and built all.sln, the building succeeded. I still wish I knew what was going wrong but can't exactly complain that things are working now haha. Thanks so much for the help, Mr. Eisinger
On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 2:49:20 AM UTC-4, Jochen Eisinger wrote: > > that sounds odd. are you by any chance using the vcproj files directly, or > build\all.sln ? > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM Andrew Martin <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Frankly, I am new to c++ and git so it is most likely a user error on my >> part. I was trying to follow along with the docs ( >> https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Using%20Git) and used "fetch v8". I then >> generated the project files with "python build\gyp_v8". I am not sure >> exactly which version is being used when I try to build but it is likely >> not the correct one as you suggest. I have VS 2015 installed and would have >> used that version but was getting a similar error. Any chance you could >> help a newbie out haha? >> >> >> On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 12:24:30 AM UTC-4, Jochen Eisinger wrote: >> >>> what version of v8 are you trying to compile? I don't think we use /H on >>> ToT. >>> >>> I guess we should also update the documentation to say VS 2015 is the >>> minimum required version at this point. >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:23 PM Andrew Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> I am attempting to build google v8 with visual studio 2013 according to [ >>>> https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building%20with%20Gyp][1] >>>> <https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building%20with%20Gyp%5D%5B1%5D>. >>>> However, I am getting this error on practically every .vcxproj file in my >>>> solution explorer: >>>> >>>> Error 12 error D8021: invalid numeric argument '/H,' C:\v8\tools\gyp\cl >>>> v8_base_3 >>>> >>>> According to the MSDN [ >>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bc2y4ddf(v=vs.120).aspx][1], >>>> "/H restricts the length of external names." and "/H is deprecated; the >>>> maximum length limits have been increased and /H is no longer needed." >>>> >>>> I'm not sure if this is a problem with visual studio versions or if I >>>> need to remove this flag from some code somewhere. Any chance I could get >>>> some help? Thank so much >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> -- >> -- >> v8-users mailing list >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- -- 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.
