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I'm trying to get Vim JS lint plugin working under Ubuntu 12.04. The plugin requires the d8 command, which is an executable version of Google's v8 JavaScript Engine.

I do see a libv8 package, but that doesn't seem to either install d8 or at least, not put it on my path. The package is described as

libv8-3.7.12.22 - v8 JavaScript engine - runtime library

Is there any package that will install an executable version of the v8 engine, or do I just have to build it manually?

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answered 2 Years ago fieldcheon · Accepted Answer

I am going to take the lack of answers as a no.

It is not difficult to make and install v8 from Google's SVN repo.

All you need to do is check it out and make it.

svn checkout http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ./v8

cd v8

make builddeps

make native

Then inside the out/native directory there will be d8 binary, I just symlinked this to my /usr/local/bin.