imharrywu / v8

v8 javascript engine

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date with Dependencies, run

    cd v8
    gclient sync

To stay up to date with v8 source code, run cd v8 git pull

It is Recommended to use your own branch, run cd v8 git checkout -b mywork

Building the Code with Visual studio 2015 on windows

1. Setup visual studio version, as c++11 required, set it up to 2013, run

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2015

2. Setup PATH, add cygwin( to generate global_intermediate), python etc, run

third_party/cygwin/setup_env.bat

3. Generate vs projects by GYP command(if need, install gyp for python), run

third_party/python/python.exe build\gyp_v8 -Dtarget_arch=ia32 -Dlibrary=static_library [-Dv8_use_snapshot='false']

4. Done

open `build\all.sln' to build

Building the Code with GNU on linux

1. Generate Makefiles for GNU make( >= GLIBC-2.14), run

python build\gyp_v8

2. Make it, run

make ia32.release