Anyone working on a Chromium port for Windows RT

[Tomoki Taniguchi]

I realize that there may only be a limited demand for a Chromium port for this platform.

Especially considering the fact that by default Windows RT locks out apps not installed through their app store.

But last year the a jailbreak was released for the Windows 8.1 RT.

The jailbreak puts the Windows RT in a "test mode" which allows running sideloaded "signed" apps regardless of who the signs the executable.

Since there are already chome/chromium ports for the arm architecture and the windows x86/x64 platforms, I'm wondering how difficult it would be to create a port for the windows 8.1 rt (arm) platform?

Are there any developers out there actively working to port chromium for windows rt?

Any information would be appreciated.

Thank You.   

[PhistucK]

The last I heard about Windows RT was that it does not let you run a just in time compilation or something similar that is needed by V8. If this is still the case (and I imagine it is, because I do not think any browser exists on Windows RT except Internet Explorer or Edge), it will simply be impossible.

Also, as far as I know, it is missing the entire Win32 API, which I imagine is highly relied upon by Chrome, so it will probably be almost like porting to a new operating system.

I do not believe that requiring store only applications was the barrier that made Google not develop Chrome for Windows RT.

☆PhistucK

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[Tomoki Taniguchi]

PhistucK

Thank you for your quick reply.

I found a thread in a different board discussing porting Chromium for Windows RT.

There was a guy trying to build a port back in 2013.

From what I can gather from reading the message board, is that the project is dead in the water.

Too complex I believe.

There appears to the qupzilla browser has been ported to Windows RT, but from what I understood of the technical jargon,

the JIT had been disabled to make it work.

Perhaps its time to give up up my hopes that my surface2 will become a kickass platform one day...

2016年2月21日日曜日 17時22分03秒 UTC+9 PhistucK: