Add note about symbol visibility in V8 to wscript

15 years ago · bc9b343fd3
1 changed files with 4 additions and 0 deletions
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@ -203,6 +203,10 @@ def build_v8(bld):
  v8dir_tgt = join(deps_tgt, "v8")
  scons = os.path.join(cwd, 'tools/scons/scons.py')

+  # NOTE: We want to compile V8 to export its symbols. I.E. Do not want
+  # -fvisibility=hidden. When using dlopen() it seems that the loaded DSO
+  # cannot see symbols in the executable which are hidden, even if the
+  # executable is statically linked together...
  v8rule = 'cd %s && ' \
           'python %s -Q visibility=default mode=%s %s library=static snapshot=on'