Introduce Chromium

Lu Yuan

2016-08-03

Background

Welcome to Chromium

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

  • Why did Google release the source code?
  • How will we be working with the open source community?

Breaking News

Cost

  • The huge size of source code
  • High requirement to hardware
  • Lack of documentation
  • Body of knowledge

Advantage

  • Specification and implementation
  • Good design ideas
  • Optimization
  • Monitoring
  • Testing
  • Simulator
  • Cross platform client
  • Customizing WebView
  • ...

Tools

 

depot_tools

A collection of tools for dealing with Chromium development.

  • git map
  • git auto-svn
  • git upstream-diff
  • gcl
  • ...
  • fetch
  • gclient

fetch

  • fetch android
  • fetch ios
  • fetch blink
  • fetch v8
  • fetch skia
  • fetch chromium

gclient

Meta checkout manager supporting both Subversion and GIT.

  • gclient config
  • gclient sync
  • gclient runhooks

GYP (Generate Your Projects.)

GYP is a Meta-Build system: a build system that generates other build systems.

  • Google
  • Python
  • VS CMake

Ninja

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.

  • Fast
  • Static
  • Designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build system

Others

  • GN
  • API Keys
  • ...

Steps

  • Prerequisites
  • Checkout
  • Build
  • Run
  • Debug

Prerequisites

  • platform
  • IDE
  • SDK
  • depot_tools
  • Envionment Variables
$ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
$ export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools

$ xcode-select --install
$ ls `xcode-select -p`/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs

Checkout

  • fetch
  • gclient
  • git
$ mkdir chromium
$ cd chromium
$ fetch chromium    # [fetch --no-history chromium]
$ cd src    # All other commands are executed from the src/ directory.

$ gclient runhooks

Checkout (iOS)

  • fetch
$ cat > chromium.gyp_env <<EOF
{
  "GYP_DEFINES": "OS=ios chromium_ios_signing=0",
  "GYP_GENERATORS": "ninja,xcode-ninja",
}
EOF

$ mkdir chromium_ios
$ cd chromium_ios
$ fetch ios
$ cd src    # All other commands are executed from the src/ directory.

$ gclient runhooks

Build

  • ninja
$ ninja -C out/Debug chrome

Build (iOS)

  • ninja
$ ninja -C out/Debug-iphonesimulator All
$ ninja -C out/Debug-iphoneos All

Run

out/{Debug|Release} directory

Run (iOS)

$ out/Debug-iphonesimulator/iossim out/Debug-iphonesimulator/ios_web_shell.app

Debug

  • Disabling ReportCrash
  • --single-process
  • --renderer-startup-dialog
$ launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist


$ ~/dev/chrome//src/xcodebuild/Debug/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --renderer-startup-dialog

Cases

  • Render
  • API

Thank you

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