oom_dump extracts useful information from Google Chrome OOM minidumps. To build one needs a google-breakpad checkout (http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/). First, one needs to build and install breakpad itself. For instructions check google-breakpad, but currently it's as easy as: ./configure make sudo make install (the catch: breakpad installs .so into /usr/local/lib, so you might need some additional tweaking to make it discoverable, for example, put a soft link into /usr/lib directory). Next step is to build v8. Note: you should build x64 version of v8, if you're on 64-bit platform, otherwise you would get a link error when building oom_dump. Also, if you are testing against an older version of chrome you should build the corresponding version of V8 to make sure that the type-id enum have the correct values. The last step is to build oom_dump itself. The following command should work: cd <v8 working copy>/tools/oom_dump scons BREAKPAD_DIR=<path to google-breakpad working copy> (Additionally you can control v8 working copy dir, but the default should work.) If everything goes fine, oom_dump <path to minidump> should print some useful information about the OOM crash. Note: currently only 32-bit Windows minidumps are supported.