Building on Windows - avoiding "goma" dependency, or how to get goma?

[Neil Moore]

I have followed steps from here to build on Windows. I used these steps:

# in windows command line

# have already installed gclient

fetch v8

cd v8

set DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN=0

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013

set GYP_GENERATORS=ninja,ninja-msvs

gclient sync

python gypfiles\gyp_v8

but last line fails with

gyp: Call to '/bin/echo -n ${HOME}/goma' returned exit status 1 while in C:\Users\labuser\tmp\v8next\v8\gypfiles\all.gyp.

It doesn't generate any Visual Studio 2013 project.

I've got a few questions:

- How do I remove this dependency on goma? It seems to be something for Google staff? Presumably this shouldn't be happening to me. It seemed to only start to block me after I had been working with v8 for a couple of days, before I couldn't build but the error was different.

- Does anybody see anything missing from my Windows build steps?

- I really don't want to use Ninja, I'd rather use Visual Studio only. Is that a supported option?

- Is Visual studio 2015 supported?

Thanks and let me know if I've missed out any relevant information.

Neil

[Michael Achenbach]

Note that the ninja build instructions are from the linux section.

Getting rid of goma:

set GYP_DEFINES="use_goma=0"

But rather refer to the windows instructions, ninja should be supported but isn't well tested:

https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building%20with%20Gyp#visual-studio

MSVS 2015 is not yet supported. Tracking bug: crbug.com/603131

Cheers

Michael

[Michael Achenbach]

But rather refer to the windows instructions, ninja should be supported but isn't well tested:

https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building%20with%20Gyp#visual-studio

Disregard this, I see now that the instructions also describe ninja. That might have changed recently. 

[Michael Achenbach]

It changed here:

https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building-with-Gyp/_compare/9363df0a84d4cdeda27e0bd9ae187094a2db4fde...42c93f5015dee799e871c7bfcfd64b02f411b770

Maybe also try without the ninja line.