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I am trying to build chromium with minimal features using Fedora 23 64bit.

I followed the link from cef website did the below steps.

  1. installed depot_tools package

  2. mkdir chromium
cd chromium
fetch --no-history --no-hooks chromium

cd src
gclient runhooks
gn gen out/Default

ninja -C out/Default chrome

Build success

Now, When I tried launching the chrome (out/Default/chrome) I get the below error:

LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:

Also, I don't see libcef.so anywhere in my src folder.

Please help and guide to get a mimimal version built and running.

manlio
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    CEF is not a part of Chromium. In order to build CEF you should follow instructions from https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/wiki/BranchesAndBuilding – alexeibs Jun 30 '16 at 13:59
  • @alexeibs .. Thanks for the info. We are able to build CEF binary successfully. However, the libcef.so file size is huge (~1.4GB), is there any way to reduce the size? – Fedora User Jul 04 '16 at 09:46
  • Unfortunately I used CEF under Windows only and libcef.dll is not that big - about 50Mb only. PDB file with debug symbols is 1 Gb though. May be you should change some compiler settings. – alexeibs Jul 04 '16 at 16:09
  • You can strip the debugging info from libcef.so or move it to it's own debug symbol only file. Google how to do this it is an important lesson to learn. – Lothar Feb 11 '17 at 05:33

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Before "gn gen out/Default" you need to execute these commands to get release build:

  1. gn args out/Default, and
  2. type "is_debug = false" in an opened editor

After build you can then run "cd out/Default && ninja mini_installer" to get an installer and archive of redistributable files.

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