Disclaimer

V8 is a community supported project. Our team at Red Hat maintains currency of the latest V8 releases to be used by Node.js on IBM Power and IBM zSystems. The official list of Node.js platforms, along with their respective toolchains, can be found at: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md

We do not provide official support on V8 if it is used outside the realm of Node.js. V8 is built and tested using the minimum compiler versions currently supported by Node.js (current versions are detailed in the above link). We do not support any other compiler versions or toolchain.

Building and testing V8 using Docker

Docker images are used for building and testing V8 for ppc64le and s390x running Linux.

We have 2 types of images. The base image provides the base configuration with the necessary development toolchains installed to build V8. The test image, built upon the base, is used to clone, build and test V8 commits by the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

You can run the following to create a base image and use it for development purposes:

make DOCKER_TARGET_LINK=your_docker_repo base-img

Run this to create all the images which also includes testing images used by Jenkins:

make DOCKER_TARGET_LINK=your_docker_repo build-all-images