On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Bradley Slavik <bradleysla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear V8 users group, > > I am looking for information about building V8 on Mac OS X. A few months > ago when I researched it, it appeared that GYP was necessary to build V8. > GYP required old Python 2 instead of Python 3 to be installed. Should this > bother me? Should I just be downloading V8 instead of building my own? Is > there a build which does not require me to have outdated Python installed on > my computer? I had read some posts which suggested that GN might be used for > building V8 in the near future. Is any of this necessary to become an expert > at using Node.js and NPM? > > I know that I seem to have a lot of questions, but google has failed me when > I tried to research these issues. > > Thanks for helping me out. > > Bradley Slavik
If you follow the instructions from [0], depot_tools will check out GYP and the other prerequisites to a local directory. Don't bother if you just want to play around with node.js and npm; V8 ships as part of node.js, there is no need to build it yourself. [0] https://code.google.com/p/v8-wiki/wiki/UsingGit -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com 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 v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
