How to add prebuilt/precompiled *.o object files to executable in GN

Question

I have a prebuild object done by 3rd party library, I need to add it to the final executable build by GN.

Is any way to add prebuild object that source is missing directly to GN executable target?

I see GN has precompioed_source, but seems to be linked to precompiled_header and not what I'm looking for.

The GN toolchain's tool link seems to be restrictive to add custom variables.

I can link into a static library manually, but this is not ideal.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '20 at 21:45

Ok, seems it is enough just to add object file to sources. GN does a hard match by file extensions with specific tool, so if object file has a different extension (e.g. not libfoo.o for POSIX), then best is to use copy action to correct the object extension.

The answer was provided by gn-dev in https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/gn-dev/IbYWe4_nbcc

I hope it will help others.

How to add prebuilt/precompiled *.o object files to executable in GN

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