[SOLVED] Building v8 from source on Centos 7

Issue

How can one build v8 from source on most recent Centos 7?

I tried, but ninja build always fails right away with "centos /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found" message.

Plus, dependency installer script tells that Centos platform is not supported.

So, is there a way?

Thanks!

Solution

That error is due a not compatible C compiler, try compiling a newer GCC. On CentOS 7:

sudo yum install bzip2
cd /usr/local/src
wget https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-8.3.0/gcc-8.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxf gcc-8.3.0.tar.gz
cd gcc-8.3.0/
./contrib/download_prerequisites
./configure --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++
make
sudo make install
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/lib64

echo "/usr/local/lib64" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gcc-8.3.0.x86_64.conf
ldconfig

(From their wiki)

Answered By - ArendE