How to create an windows installer for chromium?

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Xing Xu

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Nov 4, 2012, 8:32:49 PM11/4/12
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Hi, after build chromium, I found there are many dlls and exes.
So if I want to install all these stuff on windows, where should I start?

Any hints will be welcome!
Thanks!

Ben Wells

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Nov 4, 2012, 8:54:55 PM11/4/12
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You should start with chrome/installer/mini_installer.sln. Open it up, find the mini_installer target and build it (with component build off). You should have a mini_installer.exe in your build folder that is a self contained installer. Run it with the switches --multi-install --chrome --verbose-logging and it will install chromium for you.

You can build the mini_installer with component build on, but you need to do some trickery to use it: copy *.dll, chrome.7z, setup.exe and setup.exe.manifest to a folder and run setup.exe with the same switches given for mini_installer.


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Xing Xu

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Nov 4, 2012, 9:44:49 PM11/4/12
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That's really helpful! thanks Ben!


2012/11/5 Ben Wells <benw...@chromium.org>

Peter Kasting

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Nov 5, 2012, 1:45:35 PM11/5/12
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Xing Xu <open...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, after build chromium, I found there are many dlls and exes.
So if I want to install all these stuff on windows, where should I start?

If you're just looking to run this locally, or on another machine, no installation is needed; a simple directory containing the appropriate files is enough.

PK 

Hieu Tran Trung

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Jul 23, 2013, 2:44:21 PM7/23/13
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Can you help me build mini_installer with component build off? 
Thanks

Vào 08:55:04 UTC+7 Thứ hai, ngày 05 tháng mười một năm 2012, Ben Wells đã viết:

Greg Thompson

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Jul 23, 2013, 3:15:14 PM7/23/13
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Hieu Tran Trung <hieu...@gmail.com> wrote:
Can you help me build mini_installer with component build off?

What have you tried? What doesn't work for you?
 

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王超

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Sep 17, 2018, 1:14:58 PM9/17/18
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ninja  out/Default mini_installer

在 2012年11月5日星期一 UTC+8上午9:32:49,makefish写道:
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