On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:14:12 UTC, Thomas Preston wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 14:21:25 UTC, Jakob Gruber wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:13 PM Thomas Preston <thomas...@codethink.co.uk> 
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>>> On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 09:14:36 UTC, Jakob Gruber wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 6:30 PM Thomas Preston <
>>>> thomas...@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> We have noticed that the latest version of Chromium makes the v8 
>>>>> snapshot build mandatory.
>>>>> We were turning this off for building under Buildroot (for linux, 
>>>>> targetting 32-bit ARM), because Buildroot has no concept of multilib, and 
>>>>> host packages can't be installed with 32-bit memory architectures.
>>>>> Is there any way to continue to disable v8 snapshot building? If not, 
>>>>> where can we find out more about building ARM 32-bit V8 snapshots on x64 
>>>>> hosts?
>>>>>
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>>>> Unfortunately there's currently no easy way to do this. A 64-bit 
>>>> mksnapshot binary (currently) cannot create 32-bit snapshots.
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>>>> Your best bet is to build snapshot_blob.bin and embedded.S elsewhere 
>>>> (e.g. on the host system or in a VM). The final build could then use these 
>>>> generated files and skip the mksnapshot step. Would that be an option for 
>>>> you?
>>>>
>>>> See also the Known Issues section here 
>>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Irnq29OIGWMkcsXmazECZii95eIGQoyrYsmriHvpk-M/edit#heading=h.k26jzph28qte>
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>>> That's useful, thanks. It looks like checking-in pre-built 32-bit 
>>> artifacts is the way to go.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to just run mksnapshot? Maybe we can just tell ninja to 
>>> build `obj/v8/v8_snapshot/embedded.o`
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>> Yes that's certainly possible. Try the run_mksnapshot target 
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/BUILD.gn?l=1253&rcl=73b25eab2d914aa2be8eb2d223eee7c1b93b45a0>.
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>> Make sure to use the same git hash and build config though between the 
>> mksnapshot run and the final V8 build!
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> Has anyone tried this? We are able to create a 32-bit snapshot_blob.bin 
> and embedded.S, but we can't inject it into our 64-bit-host build because 
> ninja wants to recreate the artifacts.
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We ended up solving this by letting the run_mksnapshot_default target 
finish, then overwriting snapshot_blob.bin and embedded.S with the 
pre-built 32-bit versions. The build actually errors when trying to build 
another target, which uses embedded.S.

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