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Yeah, I've tried building Chromium on my own before. Chromium's build process is so inscrutable and changes so often that several Googlers I've talked to have s
by moron4hire 6y ago
Yeah, I've tried building Chromium on my own before. Chromium's build process is so inscrutable and changes so often that several Googlers I've talked to have said you can't really do it without handholding from another Googler in-the-know.
- jmgao 6y agoWell, it could be worse: you could be building Chrome OS, which builds both Chrome and Android as part of its build.
- snazz 6y agogit clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git Add it to your PATH fetch --nohooks chromium && cd src ./build/install-build-deps.sh gclient runhooks gn gen out/Default autoninja -C out/Default chrome Congrats, you just built Chromium. Is it a different build process? Sure. But it sure isn't inscrutable, and they've been using this system for a while now.