Chromium-60.0.3112.101

Installation of Chromium

Apply a patch to fix errors with building with GCC-7.1.0:

patch -Np1 -i ../chromium-60.0.3112.101-gcc7-1.patch

Apply a patch to fix an issue when building against GlibC-2.26:

patch -Np1 -i ../chromium-60.0.3112.101-glibc-2.26-1.patch

Enable the use of the WideVine plugin, needed for Netflix support (see the WideVine section below). Define an available product name ("Pinkie Pie" in this case) with the following command:

sed 's/WIDEVINE_CDM_AVAILABLE/&\n\n#define WIDEVINE_CDM_VERSION_STRING "Pinkie Pie"/' \
    -i third_party/widevine/cdm/stub/widevine_cdm_version.h

Fix a build error in gn:

sed "/delayed_task_manager.cc/a\      'base/task_scheduler/environment_config.cc'," \
    -i tools/gn/bootstrap/bootstrap.py

Remove third-party build files that interfere with system versions:

for LIB in ffmpeg flac harfbuzz-ng libjpeg \
           libjpeg_turbo libpng libwebp libxslt yasm; do
    find -type f -path "*third_party/$LIB/*"     \
        \! -path "*third_party/$LIB/chromium/*"  \
        \! -path "*third_party/$LIB/google/*"    \
        \! -path "*base/third_party/icu/*"       \
        \! -path "*base/third_party/libevent/*"  \
        \! -regex '.*\.\(gn\|gni\|isolate\|py\)' \
        -delete
done &&

python build/linux/unbundle/replace_gn_files.py \
    --system-libraries ffmpeg flac harfbuzz-ng libjpeg \
                       libpng libwebp libxslt yasm &&
python third_party/libaddressinput/chromium/tools/update-strings.py

Chromium uses an internal tool, gn, to generate the Ninja build files. Complete configuration of the build using the following commands:

GN_CONFIG=('google_api_key="AIzaSyDxKL42zsPjbke5O8_rPVpVrLrJ8aeE9rQ"'
'google_default_client_id="595013732528-llk8trb03f0ldpqq6nprjp1s79596646.apps.googleusercontent.com"'
'google_default_client_secret="5ntt6GbbkjnTVXx-MSxbmx5e"'
'clang_use_chrome_plugins=false'
'enable_hangout_services_extension=true'
'enable_nacl=false'
'enable_nacl_nonsfi=false'
'enable_swiftshader=false'
'enable_widevine=true'
'fatal_linker_warnings=false'
'ffmpeg_branding="Chrome"'
'fieldtrial_testing_like_official_build=true'
'is_debug=false'
'is_clang=false'
'link_pulseaudio=true'
'linux_use_bundled_binutils=false'
'proprietary_codecs=true'
'remove_webcore_debug_symbols=true'
'symbol_level=0'
'treat_warnings_as_errors=false'
'use_allocator="none"'
'use_cups=true'
'use_gconf=false'
'use_gnome_keyring=false'
'use_gold=false'
'use_gtk3=true'
'use_kerberos=true'
'use_pulseaudio=true'
'use_sysroot=false')

Build gn and use it to prepare the Ninja build files:

python tools/gn/bootstrap/bootstrap.py --gn-gen-args "${GN_CONFIG[*]}" &&
out/Release/gn gen out/Release --args="${GN_CONFIG[*]}"

Build Chromium using the following commands:

mkdir -p third_party/node/linux/node-linux-x64/bin &&
ln -s /usr/bin/node third_party/node/linux/node-linux-x64/bin/ &&
ninja -C out/Release chrome chrome_sandbox chromedriver widevinecdmadapter

This package was already tested as part of the build.

Now, as the root user, install the package:

install -vDm755  out/Release/chrome \
                 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium                   &&
install -vDm4755 out/Release/chrome_sandbox \
                 /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox             &&
install -vDm755  out/Release/chromedriver \
                 /usr/lib/chromium/chromedriver               &&
ln -svf /usr/lib/chromium/chromium /usr/bin                   &&
ln -svf /usr/lib/chromium/chromedriver /usr/bin/              &&

install -vm644  out/Release/icudtl.dat /usr/lib/chromium/     &&
install -vDm644 out/Release/gen/content/content_resources.pak \
                /usr/lib/chromium/                            &&
install -vm644  out/Release/{*.pak,*.bin} \
                /usr/lib/chromium/                            &&

cp -av out/Release/locales /usr/lib/chromium/                 &&
chown -Rv root:root /usr/lib/chromium/locales                 &&

install -vDm644 out/Release/chrome.1 \
                /usr/share/man/man1/chromium.1

While still the root user, install icons and the .desktop file:

for size in 16 32; do
    install -vDm644 \
        "chrome/app/theme/default_100_percent/chromium/product_logo_$size.png" \
        "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/chromium.png"
done &&

for size in 22 24 48 64 128 256; do
    install -vDm644 "chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_$size.png" \
        "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/chromium.png"
done &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Chromium Web Browser
Comment=Access the Internet
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=chromium %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=chromium
Categories=GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/xhtml+xml;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
EOF

Extracting the WideVine plugin from Chrome

Extract the downloaded deb file with the following commands:

mkdir temp                                         &&
cd temp                                            &&
case $(uname -m) in
    x86_64) ar -x ../../google-chrome-stable_60.0.3112.101-1_amd64.deb
    ;;
    i?86)   ar -x ../../google-chrome-stable_48.0.2564.116-1_i386.deb
    ;;
esac

As the root user, enable the WideVine plugin with the following commands:

tar -xf data.tar.xz                                                        &&
install -vm755 ../out/Release/libwidevinecdmadapter.so /usr/lib/chromium/  &&
install -vm755 opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so  /usr/lib/chromium/