SERVER-11781 better fix for V8Scope::objectDeptLimit linker error

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.cpp b/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.cpp
index 6eba9ce13b6..55f614ac641 100644
--- a/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.cpp
+++ b/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ using namespace mongoutils;
 
 namespace mongo {
 
+#ifndef _MSC_EXTENSIONS
+    const int V8Scope::objectDepthLimit;
+#endif
+
     // Generated symbols for JS files
     namespace JSFiles {
         extern const JSFile types;
diff --git a/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.h b/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.h
index 477ac3cd8ab..b66db63c3e5 100644
--- a/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.h
+++ b/src/mongo/scripting/engine_v8.h
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ namespace mongo {
         /**
          * Recursion limit when converting from JS objects to BSON.
          */
-        enum { objectDepthLimit = 500 };
+        static const int objectDepthLimit = 500;
 
         /**
          * Attach data to obj such that the data has the same lifetime as the Object obj points to.