Fails when passing JS to the bot (>>)

[jasonwilliams]

Error: spawn /home/ella/ella/lib/sandbox/sm/shovel.bin ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1053:32)
    at child_process.js:1144:20
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11)

Is the error I get when trying to use the Ecma features.
Node JS vs 0.12.2
Ubuntu 12.10

Tried building shovel with V8 installed ( libv8-dev (3.7.12.22-3))
But the build fails:

g++ shovel.cpp `pkg-config v8 --libs --cflags` -o shovel.bin -O3 -g -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -mtune=native
Package v8 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `v8.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'v8' found

[gkatsev]

Our documentation is terrible. Some should write up exactly what's needed but essentially, you want to go into each folder in sandox and run make in each.

[ljharb]

Even better, we should just make a root make task that does that for you.

[jasonwilliams]

@gkatsev @ljharb
I've added some more info
it moans about Package v8 not being installed, not sure if that helps

I've tried going into each folder and running Make, thats the error i get when i go into v8

[yorickvP]

You need to compile either the sm or v8 shovel, but you don't need both. If one of them works, that's enough.

It seems some distros don't include a v8 file for pkg-config (v8 thinks this is the distros job), so we'll have to find a fix for that.

[jasonwilliams]

@yorickvP is there anything i can do as a quick fix for now just to get it working? (regarding the pkg-config issue)

[yorickvP]

Using spidermonkey instead of v8 is probably the easiest solution. You could try and replace the 'pkg-config v8 --libs --cflags' with its output, probably -lv8 -pthread

[jasonwilliams]

@yorickvP how safe is that to use?

[yorickvP]

Should be perfectly safe.

[jasonwilliams]

Is it on Ubuntu's package manager or does it need to be built from source?

[jasonwilliams]

@yorickvP could this be solve by using https://github.com/gf3/sandbox/ instead?

[jasonwilliams]

This now works with the latest version of this bot (using docker)