Build PDFium as static library on Linux, with use_custom_libcxx flag

[Александр Рыбалов]

Hello!

I'm trying to build the PDFium library as a static library for my Linux project. I want a purely static library without any dependencies so I can include it in my project. However, on Linux, using use_custom_libcxx=false causes compilation errors. Therefore, I can build the library with just the custom libc++ library, but that means I'd have to also link my application to this custom libc++ library, which I don't want to do.

Please help me resolve this issue.

[Александр Рыбалов]

I solved the problem by downgrading the library version. I used the chromium/6000 branch and the depot_tools commit 7f5b53ff8ddd4b1c573b20693e669a9f14ab1a7f. I also needed to set DEPOT_TOOLS_UPDATE=0 in the environment variable to prevent gclient from updating depot_tools. Also, with this version, you need to use Python 3.9; later versions don't have the pipes library.

понедельник, 6 октября 2025 г. в 23:19:23 UTC+7, Александр Рыбалов:

[Lei Zhang]

I'm glad you found a solution, but having to downgrade everything is
still not great. Can you share the complete list of GN args you are
using in your build?

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[Александр Рыбалов]

is_component_build=false

pdf_is_standalone=true

pdf_is_complete_lib=true

use_custom_libcxx=false

pdf_enable_v8=false

pdf_enable_xfa=false

use_system_zlib=false

use_system_libpng=false

use_system_lcms2=false

use_system_libopenjpeg2=false

use_sysroot doesn't help

четверг, 16 октября 2025 г. в 02:18:02 UTC+7, Lei Zhang: