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-@echo off
-
-:: Copyright (c) 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
-:: Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-:: found in the LICENSE file.
-
-setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
-
-:: Parse args to see if a -C argument (to change working directory) is being
-:: supplied. We expect project generation to output a set_environment.bat that
-:: will set up the environment (variables and path). This script generally
-:: just calls the correct VS vars batch file, but only gyp has the knowledge
-:: to determine which version of the IDE/toolchain it wants to use, so we have
-:: to defer to it to make that decision.
-set found_dash_c=0
-set cd_path=.
-for %%A in (%*) do (
-  if "!found_dash_c!"=="1" (
-    set cd_path=%%A
-    goto done_dash_c
-  )
-  if "%%A"=="-C" (
-    set found_dash_c=1
-  )
-)
-:done_dash_c
-
-:: Try running the compiler. If it fails, then we assume we need to set up the
-:: environment for the compiler.
-:: TODO(scottmg): We should also try to detect if we have the right version
-:: of the compiler too (i.e. If generation specified 2010, but we're running
-:: from a 2008 command prompt).
-cl 2>nul >nul
-if not errorlevel 1 goto no_set_env
-
-if not exist "%cd_path%\set_environment.bat" (
-  echo ninja.bat: set_environment.bat not found in '%cd_path%'. Is -C arg correct?
-  goto :EOF
-)
-call "%cd_path%\set_environment.bat"
-
-:: Export only the path changes out of the script.
-endlocal & set PATH=%PATH% & set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE% & set LIBPATH=%LIBPATH% & set LIB=%LIB%
-
-:: To pair with below when we don't skip this block.
-setlocal
-
-:: Add python to the path, many gyp rules assume it's there.
-:: Add ninja directory to the path (to find ninja and ninja-deplist-helper).
-:: Put it at the front so that ninja.exe is found before this wrapper so that
-:: next time we just run it directly (otherwise, this script adds 500-800ms to
-:: ninja invocations).
-:no_set_env
-endlocal & set PATH=%~dp0python_bin;%~dp0ninja-win;%PATH%
-
-:: Now run the actual build.
-ninja.exe %*
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