How to make a Chromium zip that works on Alpine Linux?

[Nicholas DiPiazza]

When I download the chromium-linux zip from https://chromium.woolyss.com/ it doesn't work even after all the deps that i know of are installed.

However `apk add chromium` works.

How can I get a portable build of Chromium that works with Alpine Linux?

[David Turner]

Short answer: you probably can't :-/

Long answer:

You will have to rebuild it completely from sources. As far as I understand, Alpine is based on the musl C library which is not ABI/binary compatible with GLIbc (and for good reasons).
I suspect a ton of other ABI-compatibility issues in other system libraries due to this, so there is no way you're going to run a so-called "portable" Chromium Linux binary on it.

You won't be able to build Chromium on Alpine itself, because it lacks too many packages that are build requirements. Hence you would need to do that on one of the supported build distributions (e.g. recent Ubuntu or Debian). But you will have to provide an Alpine-specific sysroot instead, have a look at the scripts in the following directory to see how this would be done:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/build/linux/sysroot_scripts/?q=sysroot&sq=package:chromium&dr

Note in particular that you will need all the packages listed in the packagelist.sid.<arch> files there. I strongly suspect that many are not provided by Alpine though!

You may also need to modify https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/build/config/sysroot.gni

Hope this helps,

- Digit

 

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