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Where to get a pre-built Chromium to easily do modifications?


Chromium takes too long to get compiled, like 7 hours on a regular powerful desktop. I'm thinking of some where to get a pre-built Chromium, with which I will be able to compile again only some files to re-link to make a new Chromium binary.

Possible to compile just some source code files and re-link (re-link object files)?


Solution

  • It's hard to build Chromium from source but it's every easy to build a new browser based on Chromium.

    With GitHub Electron, any app based on it is a real Chromium browser, and developers may create custom UI for their Electron-based browsers.

    However, modern browsers would require having servers for storing users' sync data, this might not be easily affordable for 1-man development army to create a new browser for the mass.

    Electron app is a pack of Chromium sandbox, and Node.js backend, the 2 communicate thru' IPC as Node.js will be able to access all resources.

    GitHub Electron:
    https://electronjs.org