Unify mc.exe calling in GN, set environment.

build/win/message_compiler.py

Index: build/win/message_compiler.py
diff --git a/build/win/message_compiler.py b/build/win/message_compiler.py
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+# Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Runs the Microsoft Message Compiler (mc.exe). This Python adapter is for the
+# GN build, which can only run Python and not native binaries.
+#
+# Usage: message_compiler.py <environment_file> [<args to mc.exe>*]
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+# Read the environment block from the file. This is stored in the format used
+# by CreateProcess. Drop last 2 NULs, one for list terminator, one for trailing
+# vs. separator.
+env_pairs = open(sys.argv[1]).read()[:-2].split('\0')
+env_dict = dict([item.split('=', 1) for item in env_pairs])
+
+# mc writes to stderr, so this explicily redirects to stdout and eats it.

[Lei Zhang, 2015/11/11 19:29:06]

typo: explicitly

+try:
+  subprocess.check_output(["mc.exe"] + sys.argv[2:],
+                          env=env_dict,
+                          stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+  print e.output
+  sys.exit(e.returncode)