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build: add GN build files

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/zcbenz/patch-gn into main

As per discussion in https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/1353, this PR adds GN build files into Node's repo.

I have provided 2 ways to test the build:

  1. Build with a standalone version of GN.
  2. Build with depot_tools from Chromium.

Both have GitHub actions successfully building for win/mac/linux on arm/arm64/x64/x86.

This PR only adds configurations for building the node target, it does not include configurations for building tests, which I plan to add in a later PR, to make review easier.

After this is merged to Node, I'll upstream my changes in https://github.com/photoionization/node-ci to https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/node-ci/, which is used by V8 team to test Node.js with latest V8. I'll also setup a nightly build of Node with gn in https://github.com/photoionization/node_with_gn, so we can find out early when the gn build is broken.

/cc @codebytere @victorgomes @joyeecheung @targos

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