Building Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04

[Vishvesh Community]

Hi All,
    I am a newbie trying to build Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04. I went through few sites but I have ended up having build errors. I just want to build basic Chromium debug build to understand the working on Chrome Packaged Apps.

    Can anybody help me with the instructions on how to build for the same.

Thanks and Regards,
Vishvesh

[Anton Vayvod]

Hi,

it would certainly help if you posted a) the exact steps you followed (installing prerequisites, getting source code, building) and b) your build log with build errors.

Would asking specific question on how packaged apps work instead of trying to build/debug Chrome work for you (there even should be a separate mailing list for that, maybe chromium-extensions[at]chromium.org?)

Anton.

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[ranjan kumar]

Hi Vishvesh,

You might want to follow the steps as outlined at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions. I follwed exactly the same steps on Ubuntu12.04 and i could build Chrome without errors. 

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[Vishvesh Community]

Thanks Ranjan, I was able to set things up correctly.

I am building getting follwoing build errors. 

out/Debug/../../third_party/gold/gold32: fatal error: out/Debug/chrome: mmap: failed to allocate 1361962892 bytes for output file: Cannot allocate memory

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make: *** [out/Debug/chrome] Error 1

My machine configuration is 

Ubuntu 12.04, 32 bit virtual machine and I have allocated 1 GB of RAM for the virtual box. Is this causing the problem?

Thanks and Regards,

Vishvesh

[Simon Hong]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Vishvesh Community <vishve...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Ranjan, I was able to set things up correctly.

I am building getting follwoing build errors. 

out/Debug/../../third_party/gold/gold32: fatal error: out/Debug/chrome: mmap: failed to allocate 1361962892 bytes for output file: Cannot allocate memory

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make: *** [out/Debug/chrome] Error 1

My machine configuration is 

Ubuntu 12.04, 32 bit virtual machine and I have allocated 1 GB of RAM for the virtual box. Is this causing the problem?

 

Linker complains your small memory.

1GB RAM is not sufficient for build chromium.

Furthermore, debug build needs more memory than release build.

If you want debug build, I think you need more memory more than 4GB,

[ranjan kumar]

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructionsPrerequisites#Memory_space

I have the same OS but 4GB RAM and I was getting similar failure message. After i increased the swap space to 10GB i could build it successfully. Although 1GB RAM seems insufficient. You may give it a try.

Also, try building just Chrome and that too in Release mode. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions#Build_just_chrome

$ make chrome BUILDTYPE=Release

[Vishvesh Community]

Thanks Ranjan, Currently I am trying out Simon's suggestion. I installed ninja using "apt-get install" and building in release mode.

Now I am building on a Machine with 4 GB RAM. Debug build failed on it. I will try your suggestion.

Regards,
Vishvesh

[Vishvesh Community]

I was able to build chrome in release mode. I used "make chrome BUILDTYPE=Release" to make the build.

Is this enough to build code related  to Google Applications (CRX extension)? Second thing is that I was not able to find the binaries. Where are the chromium binaries saved?

Thanks and Regards,
Vishvesh

[Simon Hong]

2012. 10. 29. 오후 8:25에 "Vishvesh Community" <vishve...@gmail.com>님이 작성:

>
> I was able to build chrome in release mode. I used "make chrome BUILDTYPE=Release" to make the build.
>
> Is this enough to build code related  to Google Applications (CRX extension)?

Yes  you can run extensions.

Second thing is that I was not able to find the binaries. Where are the chromium binaries saved?

You can run out/Release/chrome