How to build Chromium-browser for CorePure64 11.x

[jasonmb]

I'm fairly new to TCL. I see that there is a chromium-browser package available. Unfortunately, it is version 66, and I need the current version (85). I'm trying to find out how the existing package was built. The maintainer is listed as Juanito, but I don't see contact info or a source entry for the package here http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/src/. Is there anywhere else I should be looking for package source information or a means to reach the maintainer?

Also, as chromium-browser is available as a snap now, is it possible to repackage a snap as a tcz? Thank you for any assistance.

[Rich]

Hi jasonmb
Welcome to the forum.

Maybe these build notes are of some use:
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/x86_64/tcz/src/chromium-browser/

[curaga]

I think snaps require systemd.

[neonix]

There is also ungoogled-chromium. Maybe it would be easer to compile that variation.

[Juanito]

The maintainer is listed as Juanito, but I don't see contact info or a source entry for the package here http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/src/. Is there anywhere else I should be looking for package source information or a means to reach the maintainer?

You can use the private message facility to contact a maintainer, but anyway I have no plans to update chromium-browser, so if you'd like to take over please feel free to do so.

[andyj]

Does it have to be Chromium, or would the pre-compiled Chrome be good enough?

[jasonmb]

Sorry for the lag in response. Google Chrome or Chromium are acceptable options at the moment. The only requirements are it runs and it is a recent enough release to support the features I need (>80 I believe). Thank you for the status update Juanito. Perhaps my assumption was invalid about http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/x86_64/tcz/src/chromium-browser/compile_chromium-browser. I thought that was for building Chromium browser 23. Juanito/Rich could you share what version of Chromium browser those directions are for?

Ungoogled-chromium is an interesting suggestion I haven't looked into. I will have to take a look.

Snaps do require systemd, but they bare a strong similarity to tcz's in many respects. I was wondering if any work had been done similar to this effort to covert deb to tcz https://gist.github.com/nuxlli/ddd3fa2ceed7b2cecdd3. I did not find any mention of it searching the forums.

[Rich]

Hi jasonmb

... Perhaps my assumption was invalid about http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/x86_64/tcz/src/chromium-browser/compile_chromium-browser. I thought that was for building Chromium browser 23. ...

I suspect this line in the build notes probably fetches the latest version:

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fetch --nohooks --no-history chromium

... I was wondering if any work had been done similar to this effort to covert deb to tcz ...

I remember there was a  deb2tcz  script. You can search for it here:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?action=search

[Juanito]

Juanito/Rich could you share what version of Chromium browser those directions are for?

As per: http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/chromium-browser.tcz.info

Version:        66.0.3343.0

[jasonmb]

With a few tweaks I have Chromium 85 building for TCL 11.1. But, I'm running into a catch when I try to run it. If I don't have the existing chromium-browser.tcz mounted, I get a

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FATAL:platform_fornt_skia.cc(97)] Check failed: InitDefaultFont(). Could not find default font.
I've checked /prod/pid/fd and I can't see any open handles into the tcz files. However, maybe the access is only transient. I'm trying to work it out via strace, but the log is a bit painful. Is there a better way to trace this on TCL?

[Juanito]

You could try linking /etc/fonts to /usr/local/etc/fonts

[jasonmb]

Now I get it. I see what the install script is doing in tce.installed. Thanks