Build Scripts Which Build C++ or Take Arbitrary Actions
Some crates use the cc crate to build and link C/C++ libraries. Other
crates parse C/C++ using bindgen within their build scripts. These
actions can’t be supported in a Chromium context — our gn, ninja and LLVM
build system is very specific in expressing relationships between build actions.
So, your options are:
- Avoid these crates
- Apply a patch to the crate.
Patches should be kept in
third_party/rust/chromium_crates_io/patches/<crate> - see for example the
patches against the cxx crate - and will be applied automatically by
gnrt each time it upgrades the crate.