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David Turner, … Takuto Ikuta7

Apr 27

RFC: Improving GN's target resolution data structures and computations

I took a look at your proposal/CLs too, and the overall direction looks good to me. Thank you for

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RFC: Improving GN's target resolution data structures and computations

I took a look at your proposal/CLs too, and the overall direction looks good to me. Thank you for

Apr 27

Sylvain Defresne

Apr 21

Increasing minimum version of macOS required to run gn

Hello all, Currently gn runs on macOS 10.9. In order to have access to a more conformant libc++ on

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Increasing minimum version of macOS required to run gn

Hello all, Currently gn runs on macOS 10.9. In order to have access to a more conformant libc++ on

Apr 21

Gus Caplan, … Roland McGrath4

Apr 20

string starts with / don't rebase_path if its already absolute?

This is very helpful, thank you all! On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:07:50 PM UTC-5 Roland McGrath

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string starts with / don't rebase_path if its already absolute?

This is very helpful, thank you all! On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:07:50 PM UTC-5 Roland McGrath

Apr 20

Sylvain Defresne, … Roland McGrath3

Apr 12

Evaluating the toolchain definition scope

This is indeed WAI. It's IMHO a major wart but it's a real can of worms and there is no

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Evaluating the toolchain definition scope

This is indeed WAI. It's IMHO a major wart but it's a real can of worms and there is no

Apr 12

Apr 6

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Apr 6

Pedro Falcato, … David Turner3

Apr 4

What's the best way of laying out executables, libraries, files in a filesystem using gn?

FWIW, we solve two similar problems in the Fuchsia build: 1) To construct the sysroot, whose content

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What's the best way of laying out executables, libraries, files in a filesystem using gn?

FWIW, we solve two similar problems in the Fuchsia build: 1) To construct the sysroot, whose content

Apr 4

Nicolas Capens, David Turner5

Mar 25

Building a DLL with forked dependencies

+Steven Perron et al. Hi David, my initial patch works for Chromium and SwiftShader, but

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Building a DLL with forked dependencies

+Steven Perron et al. Hi David, my initial patch works for Chromium and SwiftShader, but

Mar 25

Charles Nicholson, Brett Wilson3

Mar 4

GN: shorthand for "defined(scope.foo) && scope.foo"

I personally find that the repetition can lead to copy/paste typos, and that a single expression

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GN: shorthand for "defined(scope.foo) && scope.foo"

I personally find that the repetition can lead to copy/paste typos, and that a single expression

Mar 4

Sven Zheng, Brett Wilson6

Mar 2

Looking for a way to undefine global variables in alternate toolchain

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 2:34 PM Sven Zheng <svenzheng@chromium.org> wrote: Thanks Brett. The

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Looking for a way to undefine global variables in alternate toolchain

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 2:34 PM Sven Zheng <svenzheng@chromium.org> wrote: Thanks Brett. The

Mar 2

fei方, … David Turner5

Feb 28

cross compile chromium 86.x

thanks for your help, i'll have a try 在2022年2月28日星期一 UTC+8 21:33:30<Ben Boeckel> 写道： On Mon

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cross compile chromium 86.x

thanks for your help, i'll have a try 在2022年2月28日星期一 UTC+8 21:33:30<Ben Boeckel> 写道： On Mon

Feb 28

Jeffrey Rowe (via Google Docs)

Feb 28

Document shared with you: "Facebook"

rowe34444@gmail.com shared a document rowe34444@gmail.com has invited you to edit the following

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Document shared with you: "Facebook"

rowe34444@gmail.com shared a document rowe34444@gmail.com has invited you to edit the following

Feb 28

Feb 28

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Feb 28

Charles Nicholson, … Brett Wilson9

Feb 14

GN: ninja rule collision building executable multiple times

I added some implementation suggestions to the existing bug for this feature request: https://bugs.

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GN: ninja rule collision building executable multiple times

I added some implementation suggestions to the existing bug for this feature request: https://bugs.

Feb 14

Charles Nicholson, … Armando Montanez5

Feb 14

"stop processing this file" directive?

Bazel has target_compatible_with that could potentially help in these situations. Since GN doesn'

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"stop processing this file" directive?

Bazel has target_compatible_with that could potentially help in these situations. Since GN doesn'

Feb 14

Marshall Greenblatt, Brett Wilson2

Feb 9

How to always reference top-level $root_out_dir from cross-compile build?

root_build_dir is the main toplevel build directory which is also the default toolchain's

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How to always reference top-level $root_out_dir from cross-compile build?

root_build_dir is the main toplevel build directory which is also the default toolchain's

Feb 9

Charles Nicholson, … Aaron Wood4

Feb 3

GN: map strings to integers?

Ah, thanks Roland, that's very helpful and exactly what I think will help me here. I'll

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GN: map strings to integers?

Ah, thanks Roland, that's very helpful and exactly what I think will help me here. I'll

Feb 3

Charles Nicholson, Dirk Pranke2

Jan 31

Firmware: interesting source_set vs static_library experience

You might be able to use `complete_static_lib` in your static_library target to work around the issue

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Firmware: interesting source_set vs static_library experience

You might be able to use `complete_static_lib` in your static_library target to work around the issue

Jan 31

David Turner, … Brett Wilson23

Jan 28

Proposal: GN "query server" mode for fast query commands over the build graph

Thanks, I think my preferred solution would actually be loading/saving the serialized build graph in

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Proposal: GN "query server" mode for fast query commands over the build graph

Thanks, I think my preferred solution would actually be loading/saving the serialized build graph in

Jan 28

Charles Nicholson, … Roland McGrath14

Jan 21

get_target_outputs across toolchains?

Yes, thanks :) (I realized that very quickly after trying it out, ha). On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:07

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get_target_outputs across toolchains?

Yes, thanks :) (I realized that very quickly after trying it out, ha). On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:07

Jan 21

Tatsuhisa Yamaguchi, Nico Weber4

Jan 21

Separating gn-desc output from debug print

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/styleguide/c++/c++.md#logging mentions it. I

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Separating gn-desc output from debug print

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/styleguide/c++/c++.md#logging mentions it. I

Jan 21

Charles Nicholson, Nico Weber3

Jan 18

"build config" header generation?

Thanks for the quick response and reference, Nico. This is very helpful and along the lines of what I

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"build config" header generation?

Thanks for the quick response and reference, Nico. This is very helpful and along the lines of what I

Jan 18

Reilly Grant, … Brett Wilson13

Jan 14

Incremental build bug in Windows exe manifests

I still feel massively out of my depth here but I think that what you're suggesting (the deps

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Incremental build bug in Windows exe manifests

I still feel massively out of my depth here but I think that what you're suggesting (the deps

Jan 14

re:fi.64, Brett Wilson2

Jan 2

cargo-gnaw out of date?

Thanks for noticing, I don't know anything about this component. I'll ask around to see if

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cargo-gnaw out of date?

Thanks for noticing, I don't know anything about this component. I'll ask around to see if

Jan 2

Sven Zheng, … Brett Wilson18

12/16/21

Design proposal: Introducing toolchain_import to gn

Roland's proposal using 'read_file' works for me. I went with that approach. For the

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Design proposal: Introducing toolchain_import to gn

Roland's proposal using 'read_file' works for me. I went with that approach. For the

12/16/21

Fergal Daly, Fergal Daly2

12/14/21

mb run failing with JSON error

I've filed https://crbug.com/1280069 for this, F On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 8:42:06 AM

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mb run failing with JSON error

I've filed https://crbug.com/1280069 for this, F On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 8:42:06 AM

12/14/21

Jay Vega, Brett Wilson2

12/3/21

Supporting new target_cpu build in GN

If you're asking how to implement this scheme in GN, I would write a template. The template would

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Supporting new target_cpu build in GN

If you're asking how to implement this scheme in GN, I would write a template. The template would

12/3/21

11/30/21

Don't pass `-Wl,--as-needed` when linking on Mingw

Hi, While building gn on mingw+clang (using clang64 environment from MSYS2), I get an error while

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Don't pass `-Wl,--as-needed` when linking on Mingw

Hi, While building gn on mingw+clang (using clang64 environment from MSYS2), I get an error while

11/30/21

Marco Nilsson, … Tomasz Śniatowski4

11/9/21

Executing system binaries

Hah, that example... I'm reminded of how we had to run away screaming from using the system

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Executing system binaries

Hah, that example... I'm reminded of how we had to run away screaming from using the system

11/9/21

10/29/21

New GN "Frequently Asked Questions" page up

I spent some time the GN FAQ (it was leftover from the Chrome GYP transition) and added some of the

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New GN "Frequently Asked Questions" page up

I spent some time the GN FAQ (it was leftover from the Chrome GYP transition) and added some of the

10/29/21

10/27/21

Tree-sitter based highlighting plugin for Neovim

Hey everyone, Last weekend I had some free time and I wanted to play around with tree-sitter, so I

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Tree-sitter based highlighting plugin for Neovim

Hey everyone, Last weekend I had some free time and I wanted to play around with tree-sitter, so I

10/27/21

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