Justin McCandless d9342ae870
Update engine instructions for monorepo (#161184)
I was struggling to get the engine to compile now that it's under the
flutter/flutter monorepo, and I noticed that the wiki docs have not been
updated since the monorepo migration completed. This PR attempts to
update them to give a process that works with the new setup.

I've gone ahead and updated all of the links in the "Engine repo"
section of [the wiki](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki) to point
to the flutter/flutter copies of these docs since they were previously
pointing to the flutter/engine copies.

I tested these instructions by following them myself and successfully
getting the engine changes in
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/161103 to work with the
framework changes in https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/159013 on
iOS compiling with `et`.
2025-01-08 21:24:53 +00:00
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Flutter Engine

gclient bootstrap

Flutter engine uses gclient to manage dependencies.

If you've already cloned the flutter repository:

  1. Copy one of the engine/scripts/*.gclient to the root folder as .gclient:
    1. Googlers: copy rbe.gclient to enable faster builds with RBE
    2. Everyone else: copy standard.gclient
  2. run gclient sync from the root folder