Building Chromium browser on your Mac

Copyright © Chromium Project

Building your own browser is the best way to find bugs and fix them. Now, I'd like to introduce how to build Chromium on your mac. I think that the latest code seems more stable(?) and provides more features.

This is a starting point to build Chromium on Mac OS X.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/MacBuildInstructions

Installing the depot-tools

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-gclient

$ svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools

Add depot_tools to your PATH:
$ export PATH=`pwd`/depot_tools:"$PATH"

Getting the code

A checkout straight from the Subversion (SVN) repository can take a long time. It would be good to download a tar ball from http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/archives/chromium_tarball.html

Then, you can update the code to the latest revision from the SVN repository.
$ gclient sync

Building from the command line

To build all targets (it takes a long time due to test case builds)
$ cd ~/chromium/src/build
$ xcodebuild -project all.xcodeproj -configuration Debug -target All

To build just chrome:
$ cd ~/chromium/src/chrome
$ xcodebuild -project chrome.xcodeproj -configuration Debug -target chrome

Running Chromium

Run Chromium debug build
$ cd ~/chromium/src/xcodebuild/Debug

$ open ./Chromium.app

Run Chromium release build

$ cd ~/chromium/src/xcodebuild/Release

$ open ./Chromium.app

The latest revision of Chromium looks cool.