With the latest dev version of V8 (5.7), you should be able to get static libraries using the gn flag v8_static_library = true
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM Hans Maier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had the same issue. I ended up creating the static libs from the > obj-files using the MSVC lib tool manually. > > Unsatisfactory, but it was working for me. > > Am Montag, 9. Januar 2017 15:55:40 UTC+1 schrieb Brendan Bates: > > Hello, > > I have seen this issue pop up a couple times on here and wondering what > the current status is. I was spending the morning trying to get ahead of > the game and switch from a Gyp build to a GN build. We are using MSVC 2015 > to perform the build. I am successfully configuring and building using the > following commands: > > > gn gen out/x86.debug --args="is_debug=true v8_use_snapshot=false > target_cpu=\"x86\" disable_libfuzzer=true" > Done. Made78 targets from 44 files in 1900ms > > > ninja-C out/x86.debug d8 > ninja: Entering directory `out.gn/x86.debug' > [49/886] LINK mkpeephole.exe mkpeephole.exe.pdb > LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/INCREMENTAL' due to '/OPT:ICF' > specification > [886/886] LINK d8.exe d8.exe.pdb > LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/INCREMENTAL' due to '/OPT:ICF' > specification > > The build results are confusing, however. In the "out" directory, I find > the v8.dll, along with the icu*.dll files. What seems to be missing are > the static .lib files that were necessary in previous builds > (v8_libbase.lib, v8_libplatform.lib and v8_nosnapshot.lib). My build with > new new v8 DLL does not seem to work without these. So I attempted a > static build, by adding the GN argument `is_component_build=false`. To my > surprise, no static libraries were generated at all! Is this something > that is planning on being supported in the future? If not, what is the way > around this? I certainly don't want to transition my project to use GN. > Thoughts? Thanks in advance. > > -- > -- > 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] 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.
