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Windows build guide

This is the general Windows build guide. Please read it in full before you proceed to familiarize yourself with the build procedure.

Several distribution specific build guides are available.

WARNING:
If you use this addon on Windows make sure your drive C: have more as 40 GByte free space, otherwise define with -DTHIRD_PARTY_PATH=YOUR_PATH place to somewhere else.

Windows is limited to a path length of 256 characters what makes it impossible to build over Kodi's addon build folder and define separate to C:\chromium where it becomes created!

Also if windows registry and git commands are changes is this not fixed. Chromium's build way use a own git where not can be edited!

Note:
Do not get confused if the Still working on is rewritten throughout the Chromium download. The download may take several hours depending on the system and internet connection.

Special CMake Options:

  • -DTHIRD_PARTY_PATH=YOUR_WANTED_PATH Feature to save Chromium elsewhere. Thus, the addon construction folder can be deleted without the huge package must be downloaded again in a new construction. Default is C:\chromium.

The following instructions assume you will have built Kodi already in the kodi-build directory suggested by the README.

  1. git clone https://github.com/AlwinEsch/kodi.git
  2. git clone https://github.com/AlwinEsch/web.browser.chromium.git
  3. cd web.browser.chromium && mkdir build && cd build
  4. a. cmake -G "Visual Studio 15" -T host=x64 -DADDONS_TO_BUILD=web.browser.chromium -DADDON_SRC_PREFIX=../.. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/Users/<YOUR_USER_NAME>/AppData/Roaming/Kodi/addons -DPACKAGE_ZIP=1 -DTHIRD_PARTY_PATH="D:/chromium" ../../kodi/cmake/addons
    or this for 64 bit build
    b. cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" -T host=x64 -DADDONS_TO_BUILD=web.browser.chromium -DADDON_SRC_PREFIX=../.. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/Users/<YOUR_USER_NAME>/AppData/Roaming/Kodi/addons -DPACKAGE_ZIP=1 -DTHIRD_PARTY_PATH="D:/chromium" ../../kodi/cmake/addons
  5. cmake --build . --config "Release"

THIRD_PARTY_PATH here only as example, leave away to use C: or add something else. Also must <YOUR_USER_NAME> changed to your user name where Kodi's data becomes handled.