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In typical corporate code-dump style, no README and no clear instructions on how to build or what form the output takes. I installed gyp to try it and get a variety of errors depending on what I try (the furthest I got was complaints about v8.gyp being missing; does this have to build within the Chromium source tree?). Does any Google insider want to explain their internal build practices so a mere mortal can try to compile this code?

Per https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=1 : "Looks like the standalone build system is not yet present."

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