From e42dd48b91196819596b1d621b43e2017410995a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander David Frick Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 01:48:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1a1beb92..2c326f63 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,27 @@ # Thorium Chromium fork for linux named after radioactive element No. 90 + + +# Chromium fork for Linux, named after radioactive element No. 90 +-Always built with latest x64 'Trunk' build of chromium \ +-Intended to behave the most like Google Chrome. \ + +Includes widevine, ffmpeg, chrome plugins, as well as thinlto and pgo optimizations, and experimental MPEG-DASH and PDF annotation support. + +args.gn exclude API Keys (you can get them yourself) and the pgo profile path is different for each chromium version. (See below.) + +In general follow build instructions at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/linux/build_instructions.md and API Keys (if desired) at https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys + +# Building +- The file BUILD.gn goes in //chromium/src/build/config/compiler/ (replace when copying) +- The files within the "logos" dir in this repo go in **//chromium/src/chrome/app/theme/chromium/ & //chromium/src/chrome/app/theme/default_100_percent/chromium/ & //chromium/src/chrome/app/theme/default_200_percent/chromium/** (replace all when copying) +- The file **BRANDING** goes in **//chromium/src/chrome/app/theme/chromium/** (replace when copying) +- The files **chromium_strings.grd** , **generated_resources.grd** , and **google_chrome_strings.grd** go in **//chromium/src/chrome/app/** (replace) +- After initial download of source code, run (all from within //chromium/src/) 'git rebase-update', then 'gclient sync --with_branch_heads --with_tags', then 'gclient runhooks', and then finally update the PGO profile file with the command 'python tools/update_pgo_profiles.py --target=linux update --gs-url-base=chromium-optimization-profiles/pgo_profiles' The file will be downloaded to //chromium/src/chrome/build/pgo_profiles/*.profdata with the actual file name looking something like 'chrome-linux-main-1632505958-ddbb37bcdfa7dbd7b10cf3a9b6a5bc45e7a958a6.profdata', which should be added to the end of args.gn as per below. +- Run 'gn args out/Default' and the **contents of args.gn in this repo should be copy/pasted** --Include your api keys here at the top or leave blank, and edit the last line to the actual path and file name file name of '*.profdata' +- To build, run 'autoninja -j8 -C out/Default chrome -d stats' The -j# can be changed to limit or increase the number of jobs (generally should be the number of CPU cores on your machine), and the -d stats at the end just shows better verbose stats during compiling. +- To install, copy/paste the contents of your out/Default dir to a good location I.E. $HOME/bin/technetium. **RECOMMENDED - Copy and run clean.sh within this dir to clean up build artifacts**, then you can copy tc.sh and technetium.desktop to appropriate locations I.E. $HOME/bin/ and $HOME/.local/share/applications/, respectively. These three files are located in scripts_and_desktop within this repo. + +Thanks to https://github.com/robrich999/ for some info that went into this project. + +CUR_VERSION : Version 97.0.4773.1