hnsvn / gn-project-generators

This repository contains experimental project generators for GN

xcode.py

Generates Xcode project from JSON file. Unlike original GN Xcode generator this one generates separate indexing target for each GN target, which means include directories, defines and precompiled headers should be set properly for every indexed source file.

It also uses Custom build tool for Product targets, so that Clean action from IDE should work as expected.

Usage: gn gen --ide=json --json-ide-script=<path-to>xcode.py out-dir

msvc2015.py

Generates MSVC solution from JSON file. Uses CLCompile items for C/C++ files so that C files are properly indexed as C (they are indexed as C++ when being a custom build tool type resulting in false errors). Supports building single files (ctrl + F7), and PCH for intellisense.

Also synchronizes ninja invocations from MSVC on build folder, so that when visual studio tries building projects in parallel only one ninja instance is active at a time.

Should work with both python 2.7 and 3.

Usage: gn gen --ide=json --json-ide-script=<path-to>msvc2015.py out-dir

Remarks

Both MSVC and Xcode generator expose .gn and .gni files as well as relevant parts of the /build directory. For MSVC a textmate bundle is provided in misc directory to get syntax highlighting, for Xcode the project forces file type to perl, which seems to be good enough approximation for gn syntax