Note that the Fuchsia port is in the early stages, and things are likely to frequently be broken. Try #cr-fuchsia on Freenode if something seems awry.
There are instructions for other platforms linked from the get the code page.
Most development is done on Ubuntu. Mac build is supported on a best-effort basis.
depot_toolsClone the depot_tools repository:
$ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
Add depot_tools to the end of your PATH (you will probably want to put this in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc). Assuming you cloned depot_tools to /path/to/depot_tools:
$ export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools"
Create a chromium directory for the checkout and change to it (you can call this whatever you like and put it wherever you like, as long as the full path has no spaces):
$ mkdir ~/chromium && cd ~/chromium
Run the fetch tool from depot_tools to check out the code and its dependencies.
$ fetch --nohooks chromium
Expect the command to take 30 minutes on even a fast connection, and many hours on slower ones.
If you've already installed the build dependencies on the machine (from another checkout, for example), you can omit the --nohooks flag and fetch will automatically execute gclient runhooks at the end.
When fetch completes, it will have created a hidden .gclient file and a directory called src in the working directory.
Edit .gclient to include (this is a list, so it could also include android, etc. if necessary.)
target_os = ['fuchsia']
Note that this should be added as a top-level statement in the .gclient file, not an entry inside the solutions dict.
You will then need to run:
$ gclient runhooks
This makes sure the Fuchsia SDK is available in third_party and keeps it up to date.
The remaining instructions assume you have switched to the src directory:
$ cd src
Chromium relies on some platform packages to be present in order to build. You can install the current set of required packages with:
$ build/install-build-deps.sh
Note that you need to do this only once, and thereafter only if new dependencies are added - these will be announced to the chromium-dev@ group.
To update an existing checkout, you can run
$ git rebase-update $ gclient sync
The first command updates the primary Chromium source repository and rebases any of your local branches on top of tip-of-tree (aka the Git branch origin/master). If you don't want to use this script, you can also just use git pull or other common Git commands to update the repo.
The second command syncs dependencies to the appropriate versions and re-runs hooks as needed. gclient sync updates dependencies to the versions specified in DEPS, so any time that file is modified (pulling, changing branches, etc.) gclient sync should be run.
Go to this page and download the most recent build. Extract bin/llvm-ar to the clang folder in Chromium:
$ unzip /path/to/clang.zip bin/llvm-ar -d ${CHROMIUM_SRC}/third_party/llvm-build/Release+Asserts
Chromium uses Ninja as its main build tool along with a tool called GN to generate .ninja files. You can create any number of build directories with different configurations. To create a build directory, run:
$ gn gen out/fuchsia --args="is_debug=false dcheck_always_on=true is_component_build=false target_os=\"fuchsia\""
You can also build for Debug, with is_debug=true, but since we don't currently have any Debug build-bots, it may be more broken than Release.
use_goma=true is fine to use also if you're a Googler.
All targets included in the GN build should build successfully. You can also build a specific binary, for example, base_unittests:
$ autoninja -C out/fuchsia base_unittests
(autoninja is a wrapper that automatically provides optimal values for the arguments passed to ninja.)
Once you‘ve built a package, you’ll want to run it!
Under Linux, if your host and target CPU architectures are the same (e.g. you‘re building for Fuchsia/x64 on a Linux/x64 host) then you can benefit from QEMU’s support for the KVM hypervisor:
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-system-common
$ out/fuchsia/bin/run_base_unittests
This packages the built binary and test data into a disk image, and runs a QEMU instance from the Fuchsia SDK, outputting to the console.
Common gtest arguments such as --gtest_filter=... are supported by the run script.
The run script also symbolizes backtraces.