Rebuilding libchrome.X.so for a particular android release

[vaza]

Hi,

Is there a way to build libchrome so file for a particular Chrome for android release?

This was possible for libchromeview.so before it was changed to libchrome but I couldn't find any information about the way to achieve the same thing for libchrome so.

Thanks in advance,

Vaza

[Tommy Nyquist]

I updated the web page to list libchrome.so instead of libchromeview.so in the header.

Have you tried following the instructions on the web page and in the README-file you get?

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[vaza]

I didn't copy the build-id properly from the browser so i didn't get to the right page with prebuilt a files - leading me to think that moving from libchromeview to libchrome somehow made it impossible to rebuild libchrome for a specific build.

it is worth mentioning that in order to properly being able to build libchrome, the gyp_config command line should be:

GYP_DEFINES="$GYP_DEFINES OS=android libpeer_target_type=loadable_module arch=arm host_os=linux" CHROMIUM_GYP_FILE="chrome-android-prebuilts/libchromeview.gyp" build/gyp_chromium

not adding the bold parts returns error while trying to find chrome_android_core target inside chrome.gyp. Consider adding this to the README file.

Thanks again,

Vaza

[Tommy Nyquist]

I believe that part of the setup is already described at the top of the AndroidBuildInstructions.

[vaza]

The instructions only tell you to set the OS to android. Not setting the arch to arm and host_os to linux will cause build/gyp_chromium script to fail finding chrome_android_core target.

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

Arm is the default architecture on android and host OS is supposed to be detected, so neither of these settings should be required (and aren't required for other users), so maybe you did something else wrong? Or maybe we have a bug somewhere..

[vaza]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and followed all the instructions.

Which scripts sets host_os and arch? I can verify if these vars were set properly.

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

They aren't set by a script; they are set inside the gyp files as default values if a value was not set in the environment/command line parameters/etc.