CEF C API (cefcapi)

A simple example of how to use the C API in the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), originally created by Czarek Tomczak. The example creates a window, embeds a browser and loads the Google website. It shows how to implement CEF structures with callbacks for handlers such as cef_app_t, cef_client_t and cef_life_span_handler_t. The example primarily uses dummy reference counting for simplicity, but cef_load_handler.h and reference_counting.h also demonstrate how real reference counting can be implemented. To better understand real reference counting see the Using The CAPI wiki page in the upstream CEF project.

Table of contents:

• Examples
• Compatibility
• Getting started
• Support development

Examples

• Windows: see main_win.c
• Linux: see main_linux.c
• Mac: not available yet (Issue #15)

Compatibility

Tested configurations:

• Windows:
  • Binary: cef_binary_148.0.10+g7ee53f5+chromium-148.0.7778.218_windows64.tar.bz2
  • Compilers: mingw-w64 gcc 12.4.0 and Visual Studio 2022 on Windows 11 64-bit
• Linux:
  • Binary: cef_binary_145.0.25+g265860d+chromium-145.0.7632.76_linux64.tar.bz2
  • Compiler: gcc 11.4.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 64-bit

Getting started

1. Download "Standard Distribution" binaries from Spotify Automated Builds for the supported CEF version mentioned in the Compatibility section above: https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/index.html
2. Put the downloaded cef_binary_*.tar.bz2 file into the third_party/ directory
3. On Linux run make (example uses GTK+ 3)
4. On Windows run build_msvc.bat or build_gcc.bat to build with MSVC or MinGW, respectively
   • 7zip will need to be installed, or you will need to extract cef manually
5. The built application will appear in the Release directory at repo top level

Support development

If you would like to support general CEF C API development efforts by making a donation please click the Paypal Donate button: