Static v8 artifacts

This repository contains statically-built libv8 (version 4.8.271.17).

How to replicate this from source

Download v8.

Linux

Assumes that this repository is checked out at $LIBV8.

Build:

make x64.release GYPFLAGS="-Dv8_use_external_startup_data=0 \
  -Dv8_enable_i18n_support=0 -Dv8_enable_gdbjit=0"`

If build system produces a thin archive, you want to make it into a fat one:

for lib in `find out/x64.release/obj.target/tools/gyp/ -name '*.a'`;
  do ar -t $lib | xargs ar rvs $lib.new && mv -v $lib.new $lib;
done`

Copy the libraries to the destination directory:

cp -v out/x64.release/obj.target/tools/gyp/libv8_{base,libbase,external,libplatform}* \
  ${LIBV8}/

Mac

To build:

CXX="`which clang++` -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++" \
GYP_DEFINES="mac_deployment_target=10.10" \
make x64.release GYPFLAGS="-Dv8_use_external_startup_data=0 \
  -Dv8_enable_i18n_support=0 -Dv8_enable_gdbjit=0"

Copy the libraries to the destination directory:

cp -v out/x64.release/libv8_{base,libbase,external,libplatform}* \
  ${LIBV8}/x86_64-apple-darwin

Note: On MacOS, the resulting libraries contain debugging information by default (even though we've built the release version). As a result, the binaries are 30x larger, then they should be. Strip that with strip -S out/x64.release/libv8*.a to reduce the size of the archives very significantly.

Godspeed!

Headers

find ../v8/include/ ! -name OWNERS | grep '\.h$' | \
    xargs -iFILE echo cp -v FILE include/

License

Please refer to the official v8 licensing information.