[chromium-discuss] gclient problem on win10 , no .gclient_entries file.

[Eric Davies]

I'm trying to build Chromium for Windows 10 following the directions in

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#Install

However, when I get to the step where it says to run "gclient" (no
arguments), nothing useful appears to happen. It pauses for a second and
then prints out what the commands and options are, the typical thing to do
if you are run with the wrong arguments. No .gclient file is produced, no
.gclient_entries file. I can force a .gclient file to be produced by
gclient config https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium
but that still doesn't produce the .gclient_entries file. I've also tried
running "gclient sync", which pulls down a lot of files, but still doesn't
create a .gclients_entries. The .gclient_entries file seems to be needed to
before you can do the
gn gen out/Default

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

Running "gclient" by itself is just to trigger an automatic update of
depot_tools to the latest version, and is not expected to do anything else.
You need to just keep following the instructions: the command which creates
the .gclient file and does the initial sync is "fetch chromium", in the
next section of the instructions.

Post by Eric Davies
I'm trying to build Chromium for Windows 10 following the directions in
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#Install
However, when I get to the step where it says to run "gclient" (no
arguments), nothing useful appears to happen. It pauses for a second and
then prints out what the commands and options are, the typical thing to do
if you are run with the wrong arguments. No .gclient file is produced, no
.gclient_entries file. I can force a .gclient file to be produced by
gclient config https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium
but that still doesn't produce the .gclient_entries file. I've also tried
running "gclient sync", which pulls down a lot of files, but still doesn't
create a .gclients_entries. The .gclient_entries file seems to be needed to
before you can do the
gn gen out/Default
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