How to package a Chromium release.

[Michael Duffy]

This is a very good guide:

Checking out and Building Chromium for Windows

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md

Thx to whoever worked on that document.

Now that I have created a build on my workstation, I would like to share it with others.  Is there a guide for packaging a Chromium release for Windows?

I guess I could zip up the entire src/out/Default directory, but it is 51.6 GB and I am sure there a lot there that is not needed.

Thx in advance.

Mike

[Sven Zheng]

The file list is in //infra/archive_config/win-archive-rel.json

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[Michael Duffy]

The answer was provided by Rob Rich at https://chromium.woolyss.com/

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try building this target:

autoninja -C out\Default mini_installer.exe

That builds an Windows installer executable and a compressed 7z file in the output directory.

The installer is silent, so click it and wait a few seconds to maybe a minute on slower systems for the install to complete.

Alternatively, the 7z archive can be uncompressed and run from whatever directory if desired.
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It would be good to add this information to the Chromium documentation.

If you Google on the phrase "autoninja -C out\Default mini_installer.exe" you literally get zero results.

[Alesandro Ortiz]

>  It would be good to add this information to the Chromium documentation. 

Agreed. I had previously found the mini_installer instructions in the cross-compilation docs: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/win_cross.md#copying-and-running-chrome

Until I read this thread, I didn't realize it was also missing from the main Windows build docs at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md

Mike, if you'd like you can edit the docs here: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:docs/windows_build_instructions.md (also see https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/contributing.md if first-time contributor). If no one updates the docs by next year, if I remember then, I'll submit a CL.

Regards,

Alesandro