How do I generate xcode v8 projects?/help

[Shu Dong]

I follow the Building V8 documentation，From the root of your V8 checkout, run either of:
gypfiles/gyp_v8 -Dtarget_arch=ia32
gypfiles/gyp_v8 -Dtarget_arch=x64
But I did not see all.xcodeproj in the gypfile file. Is not what step is missing?

[Zac Hansen]

Why do you need to generate an xcode project?

Once the files are built, there's not really much else to do with them.   You can add the resulting library files and header file locations to your project that uses them easily enough without having an actual v8 xcode project.

[Zac Hansen]

Did you see this link:  https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building-with-GN

On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 3:39:44 AM UTC-7, Shu Dong wrote:

[Shu Dong]

Thank you for your reply. Because I intend to participate in the development of this open source project V8, so I hope to build a xcode project to facilitate the preparation of debugging, but in accordance with the official website of the steps can not be achieved.

[Zac Hansen]

You can always attach the xcode debugger to an existing running program, if that's your desire.   I'm guessing that the core developers have no use for having an xcode project and therefor there is no automatic way to generate an xcode project.  But that's just a guess.

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[Zac Hansen]

a quick additional glance shows that support for xcode may have been added to gn about a year ago...

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=597975

also, here's some examples for how to build chromium (which uses a very similar build process to v8) with an xcode project:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkcr/docs/mac_build_instructions.md#Using-Xcode_Ninja-Hybrid

[Shu Dong]

Thank you for your reply. Because I intend to participate in the development of this open source project V8, so I hope to build a xcode project to facilitate the preparation of debugging, but in accordance with the official website of the steps can not be achieved.

[Shu Dong]

Thank you very much. Through  “gn gen out / gn --ide = xcode” can really show all.xcodeproj project, is now opening the project, I first played down. Thank you