v8-project
A set of tools to work with V8 JavaScript engine. In particular it takes care of all platform specific peculiarities when one has to obtain a new version of V8 or build it for a particular platform.
Getting the help
For a brief description of the available functionality run build.py without parameters.
For a comprehensive overview of available commands and their options run build.py --help.
Use --help to get detailed explaination of a command.
Getting V8
In order to get V8 run build.py sync, one can optionally specify the revision of V8 by adding --revision SOME_REVISION.
Building V8
In order to build V8 use the corresponding build command, e.g. build.py build windows x64 debug. The output is in the {path to build.py}/build directory.