Is there a package for an executable version of v8?

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?


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.


This might help (it works on Debian):

12:38 ~ $ apt-cache search libv8;
libv8-3.8.9.20 - v8 JavaScript engine - runtime library
libv8-dbg - v8 JavaScript engine - debugging symbols
libv8-dev - v8 JavaScript engine - development files
libv8-i18n-dev - Native internationalization extension for libv8 - development files
libv8-i18n0.0.0 - Native internationalization extension for libv8 - runtime library
libv8-i18n0.0.0-dbg - Native internationalization extension for libv8 - debugging symbols

and choose one such as

12:39 ~ $ apt-get install libv8-3.8.9.20