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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 09:22:09 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 09:22:09 +0000 |
commit | 43a97878ce14b72f0981164f87f2e35e14151312 (patch) | |
tree | 620249daf56c0258faa40cbdcf9cfba06de2a846 /third_party/libwebrtc/build/toolchain/win/rc/README.md | |
parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 110.0.1.upstream/110.0.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/third_party/libwebrtc/build/toolchain/win/rc/README.md b/third_party/libwebrtc/build/toolchain/win/rc/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e6d38f9709 --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/libwebrtc/build/toolchain/win/rc/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# rc + +This contains a cross-platform reimplementation of rc.exe. + +This exists mainly to compile .rc files on non-Windows hosts for cross builds. +However, it also runs on Windows for two reasons: + +1. To compare the output of Microsoft's rc.exe and the reimplementation and to + check that they produce bitwise identical output. +2. The reimplementation supports printing resource files in /showIncludes + output, which helps getting build dependencies right. + +The resource compiler consists of two parts: + +1. A python script rc.py that serves as the driver. It does unicode + conversions, runs the input through the preprocessor, and then calls the + actual resource compiler. +2. The resource compiler, a C++ binary obtained via sha1 files from Google + Storage. The binary's code currenty lives at + https://github.com/nico/hack/tree/master/res, even though work is (slowly) + underway to upstream it into LLVM. + +To update the rc binary, run `upload_rc_binaries.sh` in this directory, on a +Mac. + +rc isn't built from source as part of the regular chrome build because +it's needed in a gn toolchain tool, and these currently cannot have deps. +Alternatively, gn could be taught about deps on tools, or rc invocations could +be not a tool but a template like e.g. yasm invocations (which can have deps), +then the prebuilt binaries wouldn't be needed. |