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TheReclif
TheReclif

Reputation: 11

Cross compilation - V8 and Linux on Windows

I am trying to embed Google's V8 in my game engine. I'm targeting 3 operating systems: Windows, Linux and OS X.

I haven't had any problems with building for Windows - I used NuGet packages. But I'm trying to build V8 for Linux and the problem is - I'm doing this on Windows (Windows 10 if it matters).

Google doesn't exactly say how to compile V8 for Linux using Windows and now I'm really confused, as I have no idea. So far I have depot_tools, properly fetched v8 (using fetch command), Python and MinGW.

I've tried with v8gen.py, but it seems that it generates build files only for Visual Studio. As I said, I don't need VS files.

My question is: What should I do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 430

Answers (1)

Superfly
Superfly

Reputation: 601

This is not possible out-of-the-box with the current build tools and configurations that V8 provides. As suggested in the comments, using a VM might be the quickest way to get this working for you.

If it is very important for you long-term, or for other developers as well, you could look at submitting patches to V8 to make this possible, but I don't have a good sense of how much work that would be.

Upvotes: 1

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