Create a new target type for Rust procedural macro

Rust procedural macros are special types, even though they're
technically shared libraries, they're not linked into targets and
their building follows different rules and requires different defaults
(e.g. they don't support sanitizers unlike other Rust targets). This
change introduces new rust_proc_macro target type that could be used for
building procedural macros rather than overloading shared_library.

Change-Id: I9ff176a5893681ba2c3d8ce8ea291603d253e991
Reviewed-on: https://gn-review.googlesource.com/c/gn/+/6700
Commit-Queue: Petr Hosek <phosek@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brett Wilson <brettw@chromium.org>
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tree: 50aeb09210703de888f511dadb72b8c4f363b3f6
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  3. examples/
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  5. misc/
  6. src/
  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.

Related resources:

Getting a binary

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.

Examples

There is a simple example in examples/simple_build directory that is a good place to get started with the minimal configuration.

To build and run the simple example with the default gcc compiler:

cd examples/simple_build
../../out/gn gen -C out
ninja -C out
./out/hello

For a maximal configuration see the Chromium setup:

and the Fuchsia setup:

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 push origin HEAD:refs/for/master

When revising a change, use:

git commit --amend
git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master

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

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Community

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