I want to run a Javascript console on top of V8. How do I do this?
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To build the developer console, rather than the example 'shell' toy application, copy-paste the below commands to your terminal.
sudo apt-get install subversion scons libreadline-dev
svn co http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk v8
cd v8/
scons console=readline d8
These instruction will work for Ubuntu/Debian with a "generic" kernel. For other distributions, you will need to replace the apt-get command with whatever package tool you have available. On 64-bit systems you may need to add arch=x64. The console=readline option enables the readline system, to make it feel a bit more like a standard shell.
More complete documentation here: http://code.google.com/apis/v8/build.html
Note:
See also: Building v8 with GYP
In case you would like to run your javascript source code using the v8 engine or any version of it, you may utilize the jsvu command-line tool. It is developed and maintained by Google engineers and, besides, it offers the feature of installing other javascript engines apart from v8, such as spidermonkey, chakracore, javascriptcore, and xs.
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