Though I was able to build the libv8 and therubyracer gems on Windows 8, therubyracer would always cause an interpreter segfault when the interpreter would exit. Rather than diving deeper down the rabbit hole, switching to using an external Node.js interpreter seemed the more expedient and portable option, even though it requires the user to install Node.js separately.
Confirmed that this works on Windows 8, as well as other platforms.
Though I was able to build the
libv8andtherubyracergems on Windows 8,therubyracerwould always cause an interpreter segfault when the interpreter would exit. Rather than diving deeper down the rabbit hole, switching to using an external Node.js interpreter seemed the more expedient and portable option, even though it requires the user to install Node.js separately.Confirmed that this works on Windows 8, as well as other platforms.
cc: @afeld @catherinedevlin @andrewmaier @mtorres253