Ah, the C++14/17 connection didn't occur to me -- that isn't crazy. (It's decidedly inconvenient for non-Chromium users, but not crazy :-)
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:03 AM Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 2:02 AM 'Steven Johnson' via v8-users > <v8-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > Are the details of how `use_custom_libcxx` should be set documented > anywhere? It appears that the default for the `x64.optdebug` and > `x64.debug` builds is to set this to true; this can cause amusing crashes > if you link the resulting dynamic library into an executable that is linked > against the 'standard' libc++/libstdc++ for the platform, at least on a > fairly vanilla OSX system. > > > > (Looking thru the archives, I see a few threads referencing the issue, > but it's not clear to me which of the build settings are related to this > issue... or, more interestingly, why libV8 defaults to using a custom > libc++ in the first place. I'd be curious to know more about this decision.) > > I expect it's because Chromium does it and they do it because it lets > them use C++14 stdlib features (and probably C++17 too now.) If you > stick with the platform's libc++, you're stuck with the lowest common > denominator. > > To answer your other question, passing `use_custom_libcxx=false` to > tools/dev/v8gen.py is probably what you want to do. The settings in > tools/node/build_gn.py are likely also good defaults for other > downstream users of V8 that aren't Chromium. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
