chromium.bb

This repository contains the version of Chromium used by Bloomberg, along with all the modifications made by Bloomberg in order to use it in our environment.

This repository serves a couple of purposes for us:

• Provide a monolithic repo of the Chromium project A typical Chromium checkout consists of many "submodule" repositories. In contrast, this repo contains all of the submodules from the original repo but in the form of "subtree". Having a single repository for all of Chromium code is much easier for us to use internally.

• Provide a space for us to make/publish changes We have made a bunch of changes to different parts of Chromium in order to make it behave the way we need it to. Some of these changes are bugfixes that can be submitted upstream, and some of them are just changes that we specifically wanted for our product, but may not be useful or desirable upstream. Each change is made on a separate branch. This allows us, at release time, to pick and choose which bugfixes/features we want to include in the release.

  Note that while most of our bugfixes are not submitted upstream, it is our intention to submit as many bugfixes upstream as we can.

  The list of branches along with descriptions and test cases can be found here.

Branch Structure

The master branch contains the code that is used to make the official Chromium builds used by Bloomberg. It is not used for development. Actual development happens in one of the bugfix/*, feature/* or blpwtk2/* branches.

Each bugfix/*, feature/* or blpwtk2/* branch is based on the patched/<cr-version> branch, which contains the source tree of upstream Chromium project.

The release/candidate branch contains changes that are scheduled to be included in the next release.

Build Instructions

Bloomberg Employees: Build steps

If you are not a Bloomberg employee, the following instructions should still work:

• Setup your build environment:

  • Python 2.7
  • Visual Studio 2017
  • depot_tools
  • Windows SDK 10.0.17134

• Run the following commands from inside the /src directory:

        build/runhooks.py
        build/blpwtk2.py
  

• Run ninja to build:

        ninja -C src/out/shared_debug blpwtk2_all     # for Debug component builds
        ninja -C src/out/shared_release  blpwtk2_all  # for Release component builds
        ninja -C src/out/static_debug  blpwtk2_all    # for Debug static builds
        ninja -C src/out/static_release  blpwtk2_all  # for Release static builds
  

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