Improve help output.

Make the links in markdown for the "args" command and target variable
work by disambiguating href names in by variable type.

Special-case "gn help args" on the command line by printing help for
both the command and the variable.

Fix misnaming of xcode_test_application_name.

Fix incorrect linking of switch help and bad hadings and wrapping for
input and output conversion help.

Simplify markdown tag emitting by requiring the the caller generate
a tag for linking rather than trying to autogenerate one based on
text that comes before a colon. This autogeneration code was not
used.

Change-Id: I7dd3f806eac5afaef746b2e37bf0903d9ae72b14
Reviewed-on: https://gn-review.googlesource.com/c/3520
Reviewed-by: Julie Hockett <juliehockett@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Brett Wilson <brettw@chromium.org>
7 files changed
tree: 59be3c699735adc3fef7e2345a65d31b31db77ab
  1. base/
  2. build/
  3. docs/
  4. infra/
  5. tools/
  6. util/
  7. .clang-format
  8. .editorconfig
  9. .gitignore
  10. .style.yapf
  11. AUTHORS
  12. LICENSE
  13. OWNERS
  14. README.md
README.md

GN

GN is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja. There is documentation in docs/ and a presentation on it.

Getting started

You can download the latest version of GN binary for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Alternatively, you can build GN from source:

git clone https://gn.googlesource.com/gn
cd gn
python build/gen.py
ninja -C out
# To run tests:
out/gn_unittests

On Windows, it is expected that cl.exe, link.exe, and lib.exe can be found in PATH, so you'll want to run from a Visual Studio command prompt, or similar.

On Linux and Mac, the default compiler is clang++, a recent version is expected to be found in PATH. This can be overridden by setting CC, CXX, and AR.

Reporting bugs

If you find a bug, you can see if it is known or report it in the bug database.

Sending patches

GN uses Gerrit for code review. The short version of how to patch is:

Register at https://gn-review.googlesource.com.

... edit code ...
ninja -C out && out/gn_unittests

Then, to upload a change for review:

git commit
git cl upload --gerrit

When revising a change, use:

git commit --amend
git cl upload --gerrit

which will add the new changes to the existing code review, rather than creating a new one.

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Community

You may ask questions and follow along w/ GN‘s development on Chromium’s gn-dev@ Google Group.