Chromium development

Update: Thanks to Chromium devs Evan, Nico, and Hans, the BSD-licensed clang compiler from trunk now compiles Chromium. To my knowledge, this is the first non-Debug, clang-built Chromium released for any OS, ie FreeBSD built it first. :) Test it out and email any problems to me. As with the builds last week, this build includes LGPL WebKit source: email me if you want the object files used to create this build, in compliance with section 6c of the LGPL.

FreeBSD 8.0-amd64 Chromium-clang build

I have been hosting free i386 and amd64 FreeBSD 7-stable builds and patches for almost a year now and started offering paid subscriber builds to fund Chromium development in March. Weekly builds from the latest Chromium trunk are available for paid subscribers and I spin off a stable, older build for free once or twice a year. You can look over the various bugfixes and features added in the subscriber builds so far, along with open issues that a subscription funds. The subscriber builds are mostly open source and funded by a hybrid model. If you want to use patented codecs with the free build, for HTML 5 video on sites like vimeo and youtube, you can compile the port. Contact me if you're a developer and would like to work on a particular issue. Send me feedback by emailing chromium at hybridsource dot org.

The latest subscriber builds are based on Chromium 7.0.509r57790: I build on FreeBSD 8 and the latest builds include WebM and VP8. A list of patches for all the subscriber builds is available; subscribers should receive login information through email. All older patches and free builds are archived. There are OpenBSD builds also, where are the NetBSD porters? Check out this video of Chromium running on FreeBSD.

To run - You'll need security/nss, x11-toolkits/gtk20, devel/gconf2, devel/libexecinfo, and audio/alsa-plugins (now in ports thanks to Aragon).

To build - I build from the git repository with these step-by-step build instructions, based on Ben's original build instructions and patches. I first built Chromium for FreeBSD on a build server graciously donated by John Companies.