## Summary
Move the rusty_v8 artifact production into hermetic Bazel path and bump
the `v8` crate to `147.4.0`
The new flow builds V8 release artifacts from source for Darwin and
Linux targets, publishes both the current release-compatible artifacts
and sandbox-enabled variants, and keeps Cargo consumers on prebuilt
binaries by continuing to feed the `v8` crate the archive and generated
binding files it already expects.
## Why
We need control over V8 build-time features without giving up prebuilt
artifacts for downstream Cargo builds.
Upstream `rusty_v8` already supports source-only features such as
`v8_enable_sandbox`, but its normal prebuilt release assets do not cover
every feature combination we need. Building the artifacts ourselves lets
us enable settings such as the V8 sandbox and pointer compression at
artifact build time, then publish those outputs so ordinary Cargo builds
can still consume prebuilts instead of compiling V8 locally.
This keeps the fast consumer experience of prebuilt `rusty_v8` archives
while giving us a reproducible path to ship featureful variants that
upstream does not currently publish for us.
## Implementation Notes
The Bazel graph in this PR is not copied wholesale from `rusty_v8`;
`rusty_v8`'s normal source build is still GN/Ninja-based.
Instead, this change starts from upstream V8's Bazel rules and adapts
them to Codex's hermetic toolchains and dependency layout. Where we
intentionally follow `rusty_v8`, we mirror its existing artifact
contract:
- the same `v8` crate version and generated binding expectations
- the same sandbox feature relationship, where sandboxing requires
pointer compression
- the same custom libc++ model expected by Cargo's default
`use_custom_libcxx` feature
- the same release-style archive plus `src_binding` outputs consumed by
the `v8` crate
To preserve that contract, the Bazel release path pins the libc++,
libc++abi, and llvm-libc revisions used by `rusty_v8 v147.4.0`, builds
release artifacts with `--config=rusty-v8-upstream-libcxx`, and folds
the matching runtime objects into the final static archive.
## Windows
Windows is annoyingly handled differently.
Codex's current hermetic Bazel Windows C++ platform is `windows-gnullvm`
/ `x86_64-w64-windows-gnu`, while upstream `rusty_v8` publishes Windows
prebuilts for `*-pc-windows-msvc`. Those are different ABIs, so the
Bazel graph cannot truthfully reproduce the upstream MSVC artifacts
until we add a real MSVC-targeting C++ toolchain.
For now:
- Windows MSVC consumers continue to use upstream `rusty_v8` release
archives.
- Windows GNU targets are built in-tree so they link against a matching
GNU ABI.
- The canary workflow separately exercises upstream `rusty_v8` source
builds for MSVC sandbox artifacts, but MSVC is not yet part of the
Bazel-produced release matrix.
## Validation
This PR is technically self validating through CI. I have already
published it as a release tag so the artifacts from this branch are
published to
https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rusty-v8-v147.4.0 CI for
this PR should therefore consume our own release targets. I have also
locally tested for linux and darwin.
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Channing Conger