Invalid numeric argument error when building Google V8 with Visual Studio 2013

[Andrew Martin]

I am attempting to build google v8 with visual studio 2013 according to [https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building%20with%20Gyp][1]. However, I am getting this error on practically every .vcxproj file in my solution explorer:

Error   12  error D8021: invalid numeric argument '/H,' C:\v8\tools\gyp\cl  v8_base_3

According to the MSDN [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bc2y4ddf(v=vs.120).aspx][1], "/H restricts the length of external names." and "/H is deprecated; the maximum length limits have been increased and /H is no longer needed."

I'm not sure if this is a problem with visual studio versions or if I need to remove this flag from some code somewhere. Any chance I could get some help? Thank so much

[Jochen Eisinger]

what version of v8 are you trying to compile? I don't think we use /H on ToT.

I guess we should also update the documentation to say VS 2015 is the minimum required version at this point.

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[Andrew Martin]

Frankly, I am new to c++ and git so it is most likely a user error on my part. I was trying to follow along with the docs (https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Using%20Git) and used "fetch v8". I then generated the project files with "python build\gyp_v8". I am not sure exactly which version is being used when I try to build but it is likely not the correct one as you suggest. I have VS 2015 installed and would have used that version but was getting a similar error. Any chance you could help a newbie out haha? 

[Jochen Eisinger]

that sounds odd. are you by any chance using the vcproj files directly, or build\all.sln ?

[Andrew Martin]

Well I am not entirely sure what went wrong but when I re-fetched into a different directory and built all.sln, the building succeeded. I still wish I knew what was going wrong but can't exactly complain that things are working now haha. Thanks so much for the help, Mr. Eisinger