Reland: [gn] Add support for generated sources

Avoids use of absolute path to build directory when invoking the
generation script, since this was causing failures on the bots that
check for deterministic builds.

Also ensures that the generate_sources action is only performed using
the host toolchain, which fixes issues when cross-compiling.

Original commit message below.

Add a custom action that invokes the source generator. The build file
generator produces a list of dependencies for this custom command, so
that source generation will automatically re-run whenever any .tmpl
file or .def file is changed.

Like with Bazel, we also pre-generate a list of generated sources
because it needs to know what the outputs of the command are.

Bug: 513255285
Change-Id: I08beed41653a7c40a6026bd3c690a0f4792c7f5b
Reviewed-on: https://dawn-review.googlesource.com/c/dawn/+/311375
Commit-Queue: James Price <jrprice@google.com>
Reviewed-by: dan sinclair <dsinclair@chromium.org>
18 files changed
tree: 3afcc3c757effefa91da38009090436b6fc3ecf9
  1. .github/
  2. .vscode/
  3. agents/
  4. build_overrides/
  5. docs/
  6. generator/
  7. include/
  8. infra/
  9. scripts/
  10. src/
  11. test/
  12. third_party/
  13. tools/
  14. webgpu-cts/
  15. .bazelrc
  16. .bazelversion
  17. .clang-format
  18. .clang-format-ignore
  19. .clang-tidy
  20. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  21. .gitattributes
  22. .gitignore
  23. .gitmodules
  24. .gn
  25. .style.yapf
  26. .vpython3
  27. AUTHORS
  28. BUILD.bazel
  29. BUILD.gn
  30. CMakeLists.txt
  31. CMakeSettings.json
  32. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  33. codereview.settings
  34. CONTRIBUTING.md
  35. CPPLINT.cfg
  36. DEPS
  37. DIR_METADATA
  38. go.mod
  39. go.sum
  40. go_presubmit_support.py
  41. LICENSE
  42. MODULE.bazel
  43. MODULE.bazel.lock
  44. OWNERS
  45. PRESUBMIT.py
  46. README.chromium
  47. README.md
  48. unsafe_buffers_paths.txt
  49. WATCHLISTS
  50. WORKSPACE.bazel
README.md

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Dawn, a WebGPU implementation

Dawn is an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard. More precisely it implements webgpu.h that is a one-to-one mapping with the WebGPU IDL. Dawn is meant to be integrated as part of a larger system and is the underlying implementation of WebGPU in Chromium.

Dawn provides several WebGPU building blocks:

  • WebGPU C/C++ headers that applications and other building blocks use.
    • The webgpu.h version that Dawn implements.
    • A C++ wrapper for the webgpu.h.
  • A “native” implementation of WebGPU using platforms' GPU APIs: D3D12, Metal, Vulkan and OpenGL. See per API support for more details.
  • A client-server implementation of WebGPU for applications that are in a sandbox without access to native drivers
  • Tint is a compiler for the WebGPU Shader Language (WGSL) that can be used in standalone to convert shaders from and to WGSL.

Helpful links:

Documentation table of content

Developer documentation:

User documentation: (TODO, figure out what overlaps with the webgpu.h docs)

License

BSD 3-Clause License, please see LICENSE.

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This is not an officially supported Google product.