build: allow linking shared dependencies in the GN build - #65797
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The GN build always compiles the bundled copies of brotli, c-ares, HdrHistogram, llhttp, libuv, nghttp2, SQLite and zstd, so anyone packaging a GN-built Node.js for a Linux distribution has no counterpart to configure's --shared-* options. Add node_shared_* args named after the GYP variables. When one is set, that dependency's GN template defines its target as a group carrying a pkg-config config instead of the bundled sources, so every existing "deps/<name>" reference picks up the system library without further changes, and config.gypi reports the choice like a GYP build does. Refs: nodejs#55903 Signed-off-by: Shelley Vohr <shelley.vohr@gmail.com>
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The GN build always compiles the bundled copies of brotli, c-ares, HdrHistogram, llhttp, libuv, nghttp2, SQLite and zstd, so distributions that package a GN-built Node.js have no equivalent of
configure --shared-*and end up carrying their own changes to link the system libraries.This adds
node_shared_brotli,node_shared_cares,node_shared_hdr_histogram,node_shared_http_parser,node_shared_libuv,node_shared_nghttp2,node_shared_sqliteandnode_shared_zstdtonode.gni, named after the GYP variables. When one is set, that dependency's own GN template definesdeps/<name>as a group whose public config comes from pkg-config (libbrotlidec/libbrotlienc,libcares,hdr_histogram,libllhttp,libuv,libnghttp2,sqlite3,libzstd) instead of building the sources, so libnode,node_js2c, uvwasi and everything else that already depends ondeps/<name>links the system copy with no other edits; shared SQLite keepsSQLITE_ENABLE_SESSIONdefined sincesqlite3.hgates the session API on it.generate_config_gypi.pynow reports these inprocess.configinstead of hard-codingfalse. zlib, ICU and OpenSSL are left to the existing//third_party/node_openssl_pathmechanisms, and ada, simdjson and simdutf are left bundled because of the libc++/libstdc++ ABI mismatch raised on the earlier attempt.This replaces #55903, which stalled on review (its pkg-config configs were declared but never applied and some bundled deps were dropped without a replacement) and was closed as stale; doing the switch inside each dep's template is what avoids that here. Most of the diff is re-indentation,
?w=1shows the substance. There is no GN coverage in CI, so this is by inspection against the currentunofficial.gni; defaults are unchanged.Refs: #55903
Disclosure: the code and this description were written by Claude Code, directed and reviewed by @codebytere.