Error while building chromium code in windows

[Nataraj Bukkambudi]

Hi All, 

I followed link https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md to setup chromium build in windows.

But most of the time when I pull changes from our dev repository & try to build the code, I m keep getting below error which takes always 50+ files to compile which is pathetic as building chromium windows already a slow.

Please suggest any solution for this issue.

I already followed steps which are mentioned here, https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/KnMzr28bdfQ 

like downgrading WIN SDK and setting required MSVS paths, still it didn't resolve the issue.

PS C:\workspace\m_127\trunk\src> autoninja -C out\Debug chrome

ninja: Entering directory `out\Debug'

[2/51084] RC obj/chrome/chrome_exe_version/chrome_exe_version.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/chrome_exe_version/chrome_exe_version.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/chrome_exe_version/chrome_exe_version.res gen/chrome/chrome_exe_version.rc

<stdin>(5,10): fatal error: 'verrsrc.h' file not found

    5 | #include <verrsrc.h>

      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

[3/51084] RC obj/chrome/browser/web_applications/chrome_pwa_launcher/chrome_pwa_launcher_version/chrome_pwa_launcher_version.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/browser/web_applications/chrome_pwa_launcher/chrome_pwa_launcher_version/chrome_pwa_launcher_version.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/browser/web_applications/chrome_pwa_launcher/chrome_pwa_launcher_version/chrome_pwa_launcher_version.res gen/chrome/browser/web_applications/chrome_pwa_launcher/chrome_pwa_launcher_version.rc

<stdin>(5,10): fatal error: 'verrsrc.h' file not found

    5 | #include <verrsrc.h>

      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

[4/51084] RC obj/chrome/chrome_elf/chrome_elf_resources/chrome_elf_version.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/chrome_elf/chrome_elf_resources/chrome_elf_version.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/chrome_elf/chrome_elf_resources/chrome_elf_version.res gen/chrome/chrome_elf/chrome_elf_version.rc

<stdin>(5,10): fatal error: 'verrsrc.h' file not found

    5 | #include <verrsrc.h>

      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

[5/51084] RC obj/chrome/app/chrome_dll_resources/chrome_dll.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/app/chrome_dll_resources/chrome_dll.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/app/chrome_dll_resources/chrome_dll.res ../../chrome/app/chrome_dll.rc

<stdin>(14,10): fatal error: 'windows.h' file not found

   14 | #include "windows.h"

      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

[6/51084] RC obj/chrome/app/chrome_dll_resources/chrome_events_win.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/app/chrome_dll_resources/chrome_events_win.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/app/chrome_dll_resources/chrome_events_win.res ../../chrome/app/etw_events/chrome_events_win.rc

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\workspace\m_127\trunk\src\build\toolchain\win\rc\rc.py", line 275, in <module>

    sys.exit(main())

             ^^^^^^

  File "C:\workspace\m_127\trunk\src\build\toolchain\win\rc\rc.py", line 269, in main

    rc_exe_exit_code = CompareToMsRcOutput(preprocessed_output, is_utf8, flags)

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "C:\workspace\m_127\trunk\src\build\toolchain\win\rc\rc.py", line 243, in CompareToMsRcOutput

    rc_exe_exit_code = subprocess.call(msrc_cmd)

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "C:\src\tools\depot_tools\bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin\python3\bin\Lib\subprocess.py", line 389, in call

    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:

         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "C:\src\tools\depot_tools\bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin\python3\bin\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1026, in __init__

    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,

  File "C:\src\tools\depot_tools\bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin\python3\bin\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1538, in _execute_child

    hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

[7/51084] RC obj/chrome/chrome_dll_version/chrome_dll_version.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/chrome_dll_version/chrome_dll_version.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/chrome_dll_version/chrome_dll_version.res gen/chrome/chrome_dll_version.rc

<stdin>(5,10): fatal error: 'verrsrc.h' file not found

    5 | #include <verrsrc.h>

      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

[8/51084] RC obj/chrome/chrome_proxy/chrome_proxy_version/chrome_proxy_version.res

FAILED: obj/chrome/chrome_proxy/chrome_proxy_version/chrome_proxy_version.res

"C:/src/tools/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe" ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py rc-wrapper environment.x64 rc.exe /nologo "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/ATLMFC/include" "-imsvc../../../../../../Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Auxiliary/VS/include" -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 -DJIO_OFFICIAL_BUILD -D_HAS_NODISCARD -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS -D_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE=_LIBCPP_HARDENING_MODE_EXTENSIVE "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-19-init-10646-g084e2b53-57\"" -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -DCR_LIBCXX_REVISION=852bc6746f45add53fec19f3a29280e69e358d44 -DTEMP_REBUILD_HACK_ASSERTION_HANDLER -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS -DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_NI -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -D_DEBUG -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -I../.. -Igen -I../../buildtools/third_party/libc++ /foobj/chrome/chrome_proxy/chrome_proxy_version/chrome_proxy_version.res gen/chrome/chrome_proxy/chrome_proxy_version.rc

<stdin>(5,10): fatal error: 'verrsrc.h' file not found

    5 | #include <verrsrc.h>

      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

[11/51084] CXX obj/chrome/chrome_elf/third_party_shared_defines/status_codes.obj

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[Aaryan Jain]

just increase the file handling capacity for the terminal.

[Nataraj Bukkambudi]

HI  Aaryan, 

Thanks for the reply, can you please elaborate with some more information.