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Centny
Centny

Reputation: 31

how can i create project by chromium gn tools?

install depot_tool then following the gn guide and standalone guide, but i always get error "gn.py: Could not find checkout in any parent of the current path."

so my problem is :

  1. how to create the gn project which is not using chromium sub project, eg: only one function like helloword?
  2. how to create the gn project which is using chromium sub project like v8/pdfium, eg: one console project is using pdfium to read pdf page count.?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1015

Answers (1)

Andrew E
Andrew E

Reputation: 8337

I'm not completely sure from the error you describe but it sounds like you don't have a .gn file in the root.

I recently started getting into gn and made a simple starter project: https://github.com/aellerton/experiment-learn-gn

The first thing I didn't expect was the need to have a root .gn file, and that the file needs to point to the root config: https://github.com/aellerton/experiment-learn-gn/blob/master/.gn

The second thing I didn't expect was the need to provide an entire toolchain. I kind of like this now as it gives me full power. I used this one here, by making it a git submodule as the author suggests: https://github.com/timniederhausen/gn-build

Then building a trivial Hello World console program was straightforward.

Upvotes: 1

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