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Ben Murdoch097c5b22016-05-18 11:27:45 +01001# Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3# found in the LICENSE file.
4
5# Generates a header with preprocessor defines specified by the build file.
6#
7# The canonical documentation is in build/buildflag_header.gni. You should
8# write the GN build, get it working, and then transform it into GYP.
9#
10# In every target that uses your generated header you must include a dependency
11# on the GYP target that generates the header (this is implicit in GN).
12# Otherwise, clean builds may not necessarily create the header before the
13# source code is compiled.
14#
15# Assuming your GN code looks like this:
16#
17# buildflag_header("foo_features") {
18# header = "foo_features.h"
19# flags = [
20# "ENABLE_DOOM_MELON=$enable_doom_melon",
21# "ENABLE_SPACE_LASER=true",
22# "SPAM_SERVER_URL=\"http://www.example.com/\"",
23# ]
24# }
25#
26# Write a GYP target like this:
27#
28# {
29# # GN version: //foo:foo_features
30# 'target_name': 'foo_foo_features',
31# 'includes': [ '../build/buildflag_header.gypi' ],
32# 'variables': {
33# 'buildflag_header_path': 'foo/foo_features.h',
34# 'buildflag_flags': [
35# 'ENABLE_DOOM_MELON=<(enable_doom_melon)',
36# 'ENABLE_SPACE_LASER=true',
37# 'SPAM_SERVER_URL="http://www.example.com/"',
38# ],
39# },
40# }
41#
42# Variables
43#
44# target_name
45# Base this on the GN label, replacing / and : with _ to make it globally
46# unique.
47#
48# buildflag_header_path
49# This must be the full path to the header from the source root. In GN
50# you only say "features.h" and it uses the BUILD file's path implicitly.
51# Use the path to BUILD.gn followed by your header name to produce the
52# same output file.
53#
54# buildflag_flags (optional)
55# List of the same format as GN's "flags". To expand variables, use
56# "<(foo)" where GN would have used "$foo".
57#
58# includes
59# List the relative path to build/buildflag_header.gypi from the .gyp
60# file including this code, Note: If your code is in a .gypi file in a
61# different directory, this must be relative to the .gyp including your
62# file.
63#
64#
65# Grit defines
66#
67# Follow the same advice as in the buildflag_header.gni, except on the grit
68# action use the variable name 'grit_additional_defines' and explicitly add a
69# '-D' in front:
70#
71# 'grit_grd_file': 'foo.grd',
72# 'grit_additional_defines': [
73# '-D', 'enable_doom_melon=<(enable_doom_melon)',
74# ],
75#
76# Put shared lists of defines in a .gypi.
77
78{
79 'type': 'none',
80 'hard_dependency': 1,
81
82 'actions': [
83 {
84 'action_name': 'buildflag_header',
85 'variables': {
86 # Default these values to empty if they're not defined.
87 'variables': {
88 'buildflag_flags%': [],
89 },
90
91 # Writes the flags to a response file with a name based on the name of
92 # this target.
93 'response_file_name': '<|(<(_target_name)_buildflag_header.rsp --flags <@(buildflag_flags))',
94
95 'build_header_script': '<(DEPTH)/build/write_buildflag_header.py',
96 },
97
98 'message': 'Generating build header.',
99
100 'inputs': [
101 '<(build_header_script)',
102 '<(response_file_name)',
103 ],
104
105 'outputs': [
106 '<(SHARED_INTERMEDIATE_DIR)/<(buildflag_header_path)',
107 ],
108
109 'action': [
110 'python', '<(build_header_script)',
111 '--output', '<(buildflag_header_path)',
112 '--rulename', '<(_target_name)',
113 '--gen-dir', '<(SHARED_INTERMEDIATE_DIR)',
114 '--definitions', '<(response_file_name)',
115 ],
116 }
117 ],
118
119 # Allow the file to be included based on the given buildflag_header_path.
120 'direct_dependent_settings': {
121 'include_dirs': [ '<(SHARED_INTERMEDIATE_DIR)' ],
122 },
123}