[Buildroot] Chromium

[Buildroot] Chromium

[Michał Kalbarczyk]

Hi,

Is there any chance to build chromium in build root environment? Found few old makefiles, but nothing actually works. Is this possible? 

Thank you for help.

Best regards,
Micha?

[Buildroot] Chromium

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:15:36 +0200, Micha? Kalbarczyk wrote:

> Is there any chance to build chromium in build root environment?
> Found few old makefiles, but nothing actually works. Is this
> possible? 

Yes, I believe it is possible, I don't see why it wouldn't be. Now,
Chromium is clearly not the easiest software to build, and therefore to
package in Buildroot.

So doable: yes, easy: definitely no.

In any case, we're interested in having patches submitted to Buildroot
to add such a package.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

[Buildroot] Chromium

[Michał Kalbarczyk]

Thanks for the reply,

How should I start? 

These are steps to build chromium:

* Checkout https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git>
* make it in path
* run fetch --no-history --nohooks chromium
* will download sources
* cd src
* run gclient runhooks
* run gn gen out/Default
* run ninja -C out/Default -o chromium

Best regards,
Micha?


> On 23 Apr 2018, at 21:25, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:15:36 +0200, Micha? Kalbarczyk wrote:
> 
>> Is there any chance to build chromium in build root environment?
>> Found few old makefiles, but nothing actually works. Is this
>> possible? 
> 
> Yes, I believe it is possible, I don't see why it wouldn't be. Now,
> Chromium is clearly not the easiest software to build, and therefore to
> package in Buildroot.
> 
> So doable: yes, easy: definitely no.
> 
> In any case, we're interested in having patches submitted to Buildroot
> to add such a package.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> -- 
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com

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[Buildroot] Chromium

[Joseph Kogut]

Micha?,

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Micha? Kalbarczyk
<michal@gamecodehq.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> How should I start?

The manual is as good a place as any. Chapter 17 details adding new
packages to Buildroot:
https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#adding-packages

You'll need to figure out what toolchain requirements Chromium has, as
well as build dependencies.

Chromium has quite a few compile-time options, and quite a few
dependencies for "desktop Linux" (GN arg 'is_desktop_linux'),
including dbus, glib2, gio, gtk2/3, X11, cups, and more.

It might not be a bad idea to start with a ChromeOS build (GN arg
target_os="chromeos") to disable a lot of these optional dependencies.

A feature complete package may also allow the user to select the
features they want from Kconfig, which would select the dependencies
for a given feature when enabled. See the the Buildroot packages
'mesa3d' and 'x11r7' for examples.

To see the available build options for Chromium, run:
    gn args --list out/Default

This will give you an idea of what can be toggled, and what's
necessary for the build.

Best,
Joseph