Martin Kustermann 3a83e43ede
Make flutter_tools use newest package:{native_assets_builder,native_assets_cli,native_toolchain_c} (#158214)
Almost all of the code is just adopting to changes to the APIs of
`package:native_assets_builder`, `package:native_assets_cli` and
`package:native_toolchain_c`

There's only two semantic changes

* Removes a test that checks for a verification error if a build hook
produces a static library if the preferred linking mode is dynamic:
=> The test is written in a very hacky way. By monkey patching the build
config.json that flutter build actually made. This monkey patching
relies on package:cli_config which is now no longer used.
=> The actual code that checks for this mismatch lives in
dart-lang/native repository and is tested there. So there's really no
need to duplicate that.

* The `package:native_assets_builder` no longer knows about code assets.
This is something a user of that package (e.g. flutter tools) adds. Now
the dry-run functionality will invoke build hooks who produce code
assets without an architecture.
=> The `package:native_assets_builder` used to expand such a code asset
to N different code assets (one for each supported architecture)
=> This logic was now moved to flutter tools. => In the near future
we're going to this dry-run complexity, which will then also get rid of
this uglyness (of expanding to all archs of an OS).
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# {{projectName}}

{{description}}

## Getting Started

This project is a starting point for a Flutter
[FFI package](https://flutter.dev/to/ffi-package),
a specialized package that includes native code directly invoked with Dart FFI.

## Project structure

This template uses the following structure:

* `src`: Contains the native source code, and a CmakeFile.txt file for building
  that source code into a dynamic library.

* `lib`: Contains the Dart code that defines the API of the plugin, and which
  calls into the native code using `dart:ffi`.

* `bin`: Contains the `build.dart` that performs the external native builds.

## Building and bundling native code

`build.dart` does the building of native components.

Bundling is done by Flutter based on the output from `build.dart`.

## Binding to native code

To use the native code, bindings in Dart are needed.
To avoid writing these by hand, they are generated from the header file
(`src/{{projectName}}.h`) by `package:ffigen`.
Regenerate the bindings by running `dart run ffigen --config ffigen.yaml`.

## Invoking native code

Very short-running native functions can be directly invoked from any isolate.
For example, see `sum` in `lib/{{projectName}}.dart`.

Longer-running functions should be invoked on a helper isolate to avoid
dropping frames in Flutter applications.
For example, see `sumAsync` in `lib/{{projectName}}.dart`.

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