<s>
GYP	B-Operating_System
(	O
generate	B-Operating_System
your	I-Operating_System
projects	I-Operating_System
)	O
is	O
an	O
obsolete	O
build	B-Application
automation	I-Application
tool	O
created	O
in	O
2011	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
Its	O
purpose	O
was	O
to	O
generate	O
native	O
IDE	B-Application
project	O
files	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
Visual	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
and	O
Xcode	B-Operating_System
)	O
for	O
building	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
web	I-Language
browser	I-Language
and	O
is	O
licensed	O
as	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
using	O
the	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
software	I-Operating_System
license	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
functionality	O
of	O
GYP	B-Operating_System
is	O
similar	O
to	O
the	O
CMake	B-Language
build	B-Application
tool	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GYP	B-Operating_System
processes	O
a	O
file	O
that	O
contains	O
a	O
JSON	B-General_Concept
dictionary	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
generate	O
one	O
or	O
more	O
target	O
project	O
make	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
single	O
source	O
.GYP	O
file	O
is	O
generic	O
while	O
the	O
target	O
files	O
are	O
specific	O
to	O
each	O
targeted	O
build	B-Application
tool	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2016	O
,	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
project	I-Language
replaced	O
GYP	B-Operating_System
with	O
GN	O
,	O
a	O
tool	O
that	O
generates	O
ninja	B-Application
builds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
projects	O
that	O
migrated	O
from	O
GYP	B-Operating_System
to	O
GN	O
include	O
the	O
V8	B-Language
Javascript	I-Language
engine	I-Language
,	O
WebRTC	B-Protocol
and	O
Dart	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Software	O
projects	O
that	O
are	O
still	O
built	O
using	O
GYP	B-Operating_System
include	O
Node.js	B-Language
and	O
Telegram	B-Application
.	O
</s>
