V8
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v8
Written in 2015. Tools, APIs and prices may have changed since.
Lab note What I wrote down while learning this by building with it. Short by design; the code is in pfeilbr/v8-playground.
Project to learn and experiment with the V8 javascript engine.
Building V8 with Xcode
- Install depot-tools. And add to
PATHenvironment variable. - Clone repo $ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git
- Build $ cd v8 $ build/gyp_v8 -Dtarget_arch=x64
Background
This project was created with a new Application | Command Line Tool with the language set to C++ in Xcode.
The static libraries from the v8 build were copied in Image no longer available
The v8 include files were copied from v8/include to v8-includes