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1 .. _gn: 2 3 ============================== 4 GN support in the build system 5 ============================== 6 7 :abbr:`GN (Generated Ninja)` is a third-party build tool used by chromium and 8 some related projects that are vendored in mozilla-central. Rather than 9 requiring ``GN`` to build or writing our own build definitions for these projects, 10 we have support in the build system for translating GN configuration 11 files into moz.build files. In most cases these moz.build files will be like any 12 others in the tree (except that they shouldn't be modified by hand), however 13 those updating vendored code or building on platforms not supported by 14 Mozilla automation may need to re-generate these files. This is a per-project 15 process, described in dom/media/webrtc/third_party_build/gn-configs/README.md for 16 webrtc. As of writing, it is very specific to webrtc, and likely doesn't work as-is 17 for other projects.