can v8 be run without an OS

[Qiaowen Yang]

Hi,

I know that building V8 requires a lot of packages, but I am curious whether V8 can be run without an OS. For example, can we use a simulator like gem5 to run V8.

Thanks for any help.

Yours,

Qiaowen

[Ben Noordhuis]

Short answer: no

Long(er) answer: V8 depends on the OS for things like memory
allocation and thread creation. You would have to write quite a bit of
glue code to make it work in a "bare metal" (god, I hate that phrase)
environment. V8's build tooling isn't very amenable to such scenarios
either.

[Qiaowen Yang]

Thanks for your clarification!