GYP (''generate your projects'') is an obsolete
build automation
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tool created in 2011 by
Google
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Tool
Its purpose was to generate native
integrated development environment
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(IDE) project files (such as
Visual Studio
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and
Xcode
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) for building the
Chromium
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Chromium ...
web browser and is licensed as
open source
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software using the
BSD software license.
The functionality of GYP is similar to the
CMake
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build tool. GYP processes a file that contains a
JSON
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dictionary in order to generate one or more target project make files. The single source .GYP file is generic while the target files are specific to each targeted build tool.
In 2016, the Chromium project replaced GYP with GN, a tool that generates
ninja builds. The switch to GN resulted in a 20x speedup for their use case. Other projects that migrated from GYP to GN include the
V8 Javascript engine,
WebRTC
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and
Dart.
Software projects that are still built using GYP include
Node.js and
Telegram
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Build automation
Google Chrome
Cross-platform free software
Software using the BSD license