Some experimental stuff, but NewDefaultPlatform object was undefined,

probably due to embedding the wrong .o file from mksnapshot

v8pp/Makefile

 SHELL:=/bin/bash
 
-v8:
+iv8:
 	# git clone https://github.com/rayburgemeestre/v8pp
 	#
-	git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
+	git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git || true
 	# will be factored out at some point
-	git clone https://github.com/pmed/v8pp
+	git clone https://github.com/pmed/v8pp || true
 	pushd v8pp && git checkout 8ad6c07b13a811d9132c202f48b4a902d5685a98  # master at time of writing
 
 	bash ../ubuntu1804.sh make build

v8pp/build-v8.sh

 #gclient sync -r 6.9.427.13 # https://ci.appveyor.com/project/pmed/v8pp
 cd v8
 gclient sync -r 7.5.288.23  # https://github.com/pmed/v8-nuget/
+#gclient sync -r 8.0.426.15  # stupid test
+#gclient sync -r 7.2.1  # stupid test
 # old version
 # git checkout 5.5.372.7
 
 # Looks like we have to use GN now: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Building-with-GN
 
 # initial build
+# temp
+#rm -rf out/x64.release
 ./tools/dev/gm.py x64.release
 
 # workaround, see notes.txt
 echo "v8_enable_embedded_builtins = false"  | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
 echo "v8_use_external_startup_data = false" | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
 echo "v8_use_snapshot = false"              | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
-echo "use_custom_libcxx = false"            | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
+echo "use_custom_libcxx = true"             | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
 # possibly they use a different version of clang compiling v8.
 # however, I already set my own, probably newer clang version.
 # ran into: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/Jb1VSouy2Z0
-echo "is_clang = false"                     | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
+#echo "is_clang = false"                     | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
+# setting to true now, and see if we use this clang on starcry if it works..
+echo "is_clang = true"                     | tee -a out/x64.release/args.gn
 
 
 # produce monolith (single static all in one .a file)

v8pp/v8-include.txt

 ./v8/out/x64.release/obj/buildtools/third_party/libc++abi/libc++abi
-./v8/out/x64.release/obj/mksnapshot
 ./v8/out/x64.release/obj/src/inspector/inspector
 ./v8/out/x64.release/obj/third_party/icu/icui18n
 ./v8/out/x64.release/obj/third_party/icu/icuuc