No space for building Chromium

[parth nanda]

I am planning to participate in chromium through this project https://docs.google.com/document/d/12MtsR_5jb6hqyBPKY2xhrGTbfK88tJ6syKeIWTpt6-4/edit# in gsoc and thus I tried building up chromium but it seems 100 GB of space is not enough to build it on my m1 mac. So, what should I do?

I am getting this in error message while using this command: autoninja -C out/Default chrome.

fatal error: error in backend: IO failure on output stream: No space left on device

Is there any way I can still go on participating with my device only?

[Christian Biesinger]

If you don't want to get a bigger hard disk, you could try setting
is_debug=false in args.gn, or symbol_level=0, those should help with
disk space.

Christian

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[K. Moon]

You can try and disable symbols:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/gn-build-configuration/#faster-builds-with-no-or-minimal-symbols

That said, 100 GB isn't much for working on Chromium, including the source checkout and dependencies.

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[Niranjan Rao]

You can just try to clone required branch or tag rather than cloning full history. I've clean - not compiled repos on my machine and full history repo shows 59 GB vs the one where I cloned just a git tag shows 5.6G.

On 3/2/23 06:47, parth nanda wrote:

I am planning to participate in chromium through this 
project https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/document/d/12MtsR_5jb6hqyBPKY2xhrGTbfK88tJ6syKeIWTpt6-4/edit*__;Iw!!CbU71lC5478d!PDOwzngZnFoDIgsvEwiXb4GYFDSyIQFtIoM_rpcNWzcCLEeCiwtReJLksIGhzjzHEg__o2v-0p3zn7dahniQ2A$  
in gsoc and thus I tried building up chromium but it seems 100 GB of space 
is not enough to build it on my m1 mac. So, what should I do?
I am getting this in error message while using this command: autoninja -C 
out/Default chrome.

fatal error: error in backend: IO failure on output stream: No space left 
on device
Is there any way I can still go on participating with my device only?

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