Which package provides the GN meta-build system?

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Which package provides the GN meta-build system?

Postby Tigger » Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:15 pm

I'm currently researching what hardware to buy to run Arch Linux ARM (ALA) on and then cross compile some third party packages.
One of the third party packages requires the GN meta-build system. To generate Ninja build files.
So I checked the ALA package repo. But nothing showed up. But I can see the packages for the Ninja build system. So I assume that GN is somewhere in the package db.

Which package provides the GN meta-build system?
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Re: Which package provides the GN meta-build system?

Postby WarheadsSE » Sat Jan 13, 2018 3:24 pm

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Re: Which package provides the GN meta-build system?

Postby Tigger » Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:44 pm

But those are not for ARM.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('https://www.chromium.org/developers/gn-build-configuration', '
')Overriding the CPU architecture
By default, the GN build will match that of the host OS and CPU architecture.
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Mac and desktop Linux supports only "x64". On desktop Linux you might also theoretically try any of the ARM or MIPS architecture strings form the Android section below, but these aren't supported or tested and you will also need a sysroot.
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If you specify an Android build (see below) the default CPU architecture will be "arm". You could try overriding it to "arm64", "x86", "mipsel", or "mips64el" but the GN builds for these aren't regularly tested.
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Re: Which package provides the GN meta-build system?

Postby WarheadsSE » Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:26 pm

Then you may need to build it, with the '-git' package
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Re: Which package provides the GN meta-build system?

Postby Tigger » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:12 pm

Mumble, mumble, mumble. You just electrocuted my hair. Mumble, mumble, mumble. I was afraid that it was heading that way. Mumble, mumble, mumble. Even if it compiles there is no guarantee that it works though. Mumble, mumble, mumble. Because those architectures are not regularly tested. Mumble, mumble, mumble. :roll: :lol:
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