diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8fae05d073552b..2bb27028464ccc 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ script:
 - ./tools/lint.py
 - ./tools/test_format.py
 - ./tools/build.py -C target/release
-- cargo build -p test_plugin --release --locked
 - DENO_BUILD_MODE=release ./tools/test.py -v
 
 jobs:
diff --git a/BUILD.gn b/BUILD.gn
index 909d04ce590e9e..f5f6b0d5d10c37 100644
--- a/BUILD.gn
+++ b/BUILD.gn
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ group("default") {
     "cli:deno",
     "core:default",
     "core/libdeno:libdeno_test",
+    "tests/plugin:test_plugin",
   ]
 }
 
diff --git a/build_extra/rust/rust.gni b/build_extra/rust/rust.gni
index dee8c311c6f41c..9b84648bbabe75 100644
--- a/build_extra/rust/rust.gni
+++ b/build_extra/rust/rust.gni
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ template("_rust_crate") {
   } else if (crate_type == "rlib") {
     out_file = "lib$crate_name$crate_suffix.rlib"
     emit_type = "link"
-  } else if (crate_type == "dylib") {
+  } else if (crate_type == "dylib" || crate_type == "cdylib") {
     out_file = "$shared_lib_prefix$crate_name$crate_suffix$shared_lib_suffix"
     emit_type = "link"
   }
@@ -318,6 +318,13 @@ template("rust_dylib") {
   }
 }
 
+template("rust_cdylib") {
+  _rust_crate(target_name) {
+    forward_variables_from(invoker, "*")
+    crate_type = "cdylib"
+  }
+}
+
 template("rust_proc_macro") {
   _rust_crate(target_name) {
     forward_variables_from(invoker, "*")
diff --git a/cli/BUILD.gn b/cli/BUILD.gn
index 9c16f5e9fd4edf..43bb575716662d 100644
--- a/cli/BUILD.gn
+++ b/cli/BUILD.gn
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ main_extern = [
   },
 ]
 main_extern_rlib = [
-  "dlopen",
   "ansi_term",
   "atty",
   "clap",
   "dirs",
+  "dlopen",
   "flatbuffers",
   "futures",
   "fwdansi",
diff --git a/js/native_plugins.ts b/js/native_plugins.ts
index 54ca352c8cabcc..968b00f20648dc 100644
--- a/js/native_plugins.ts
+++ b/js/native_plugins.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
+// TODO rename this file to js/plugins.ts
 import { sendSync, sendAnySync } from "./dispatch";
 import * as msg from "gen/cli/msg_generated";
 import * as flatbuffers from "./flatbuffers";
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ class PluginOpImpl implements PluginOp {
   }
 }
 
+// TODO Rename to pluginOpen
 function dlOpen(filename: string): number {
   const builder = flatbuffers.createBuilder();
   const filename_ = builder.createString(filename);
diff --git a/tests/034_native_plugins.test b/tests/034_native_plugins.test
deleted file mode 100644
index d64058d5c1c8a0..00000000000000
--- a/tests/034_native_plugins.test
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-args: run --reload --allow-plugins --allow-env tests/034_native_plugins.ts
-output: tests/034_native_plugins.ts.out
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/034_native_plugins.ts.out b/tests/034_plugin.out
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/034_native_plugins.ts.out
rename to tests/034_plugin.out
diff --git a/tests/034_plugin.test b/tests/034_plugin.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e43037a67c4c4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/034_plugin.test
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+args: run --reload --allow-plugins --allow-env tests/034_plugin.ts
+output: tests/034_plugin.out
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/034_native_plugins.ts b/tests/034_plugin.ts
similarity index 94%
rename from tests/034_native_plugins.ts
rename to tests/034_plugin.ts
index 0c75375897cbd3..021c27a729b08b 100644
--- a/tests/034_native_plugins.ts
+++ b/tests/034_plugin.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const { openPlugin, pluginFilename, env } = Deno;
 
 const plugin = openPlugin(
-  env().DENO_BUILD_PATH + "/" + pluginFilename("test_plugin")
+  env().DENO_BUILD_PATH + "/rust_crates/" + pluginFilename("test_plugin")
 );
 const testOp = plugin.loadOp("test_op");
 
diff --git a/tests/plugin/BUILD.gn b/tests/plugin/BUILD.gn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..04b0aaf250bc3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/plugin/BUILD.gn
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Users of Deno plugins will not need to provide a BUILD.gn
+# this is just to integrate into the build system.
+import("//build_extra/rust/rust.gni")
+
+# TODO(ry) This is placed into (on mac)
+# target/debug/rust_crates/libtest_plugin.dylib but the corresponding "cargo
+# build" places it in target/debug/libtest_plugin.dylib this discrepancy means
+# that tests/034_plugin.test depends on a GN build.
+rust_cdylib("test_plugin") {
+  source_root = "lib.rs"
+
+  # TODO(ry) This should not be necessary, it should come with the extern
+  # core:deno
+  args = [
+    "-L",
+    "obj/core/libdeno/",
+  ]
+
+  extern = [
+    {
+      label = "//core:deno"
+      crate_name = "deno"
+      crate_type = "rlib"
+    },
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/tools/format.py b/tools/format.py
index 7f53ff5069bec1..2f8a1e276883d1 100755
--- a/tools/format.py
+++ b/tools/format.py
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ def qrun(cmd, env=None):
      find_exts(["core"], [".cc", ".h"]))
 
 print "gn format"
-for fn in ["BUILD.gn", ".gn"] + find_exts(["build_extra", "cli", "core"],
-                                          [".gn", ".gni"]):
+for fn in ["BUILD.gn", ".gn"] + find_exts(
+    ["build_extra", "cli", "core", "tests/plugin"], [".gn", ".gni"]):
     qrun(["third_party/depot_tools/gn", "format", fn], env=google_env())
 
 print "yapf"