On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> wrote:

> How does that affect building on arm (pi, beagle, panda) and/or cross
> compilation?


Everything just works. See
https://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/BuildingWithGYP#Cross-compiling .


>  Cross compiling for pi on x86 requires building with snapshots off.


Why?

It's easy to turn off building with snapshot if required: "make arm.release
snapshot=off". I see no reason to do that for cross-compile builds, however.


> There are over 500k pi sold already and node.js and v8 are popular
> applications run on it.
>
> -L
>
>
> On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Jakob Kummerow wrote:
>
>>  Yes, building with snapshot=on is the default.
>>
>> Disregard the SConstruct file. It is no longer used and about to be
>> deleted. The SCons based build has been dead for a while now.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:11 PM, utkonos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems from the instructions that snapshot=on is the default for
>>> building v8, and you need to specify snapshot=off now.  However, I see the
>>> following lines in SConstruct:
>>>
>>> 'snapshot': {
>>> 'values': ['on', 'off', 'nobuild'],
>>> 'default': 'off',
>>> 'help': 'build using snapshots for faster start-up'
>>>
>>>

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