Yocto Build Chromium browser

lb2017 · Sep 17th 2018

I followed the instructions in the iMX 6 First Steps document to add the Chromium browser,
however the version it pulls in is 48.0.2548.0 which is far too old.

Are there any plans to pull in a more up-to-date version of the browser?

The meta-browser master branch contains 68.0.3440.106 which is far more suitable.

fs-support_HK · Sep 17th 2018

The next release will use a newer Yocto version (most probably 2.4) which also contains a newer Chromium. However it will still take a few weeks until release.

Your F&S Support Team

ahmedawad · Jan 30th 2019

Hi everyone,

I tried to build chromium within yocto and I followed the steps as in the Efus First steps guide, but in the middle of the build process bitbake can not find this file "file://include.gypi".

in summary I did the following:

- I downloaded "fsimx6ul-Y1.0.tar.bz2"

- ./setup-yocto

- DISTRO=fus-imx-x11 MACHINE=fsimx6ul source ./fsl-setup-release.sh -b build

- I added the chromium package as in section 9.2.7

- bitbake fus-image-std

only in middle of the build process, I hit exactly this error -->

Code

WARNING: chromium-48.0.2548.0-r0 do_fetch: Failed to fetch URL file://include.gypi, attempting MIRRORS if available
ERROR: chromium-48.0.2548.0-r0 do_fetch: Fetcher failure: Unable to find file file://include.gypi anywhere. The paths that were searched were:
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/fsl-imx-x11
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/fsl-imx-x11
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/fsl-imx-x11
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/fsl-imx-x11
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/fsimx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/fsimx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/fsimx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/fsimx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/mx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/mx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/mx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/mx6ul
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/imx
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/imx
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/imx
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/imx
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/armv7ve
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/armv7ve
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/armv7ve
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/armv7ve
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/arm
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/arm
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/arm
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/arm
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-48.0.2548.0/
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium/
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/files/
/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/downloads/
ERROR: chromium-48.0.2548.0-r0 do_fetch: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL: 'file://include.gypi'. Unable to fetch URL from any source.
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/build/tmp/work/cortexa7hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/chromium/48.0.2548.0-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.5032
ERROR: Task 796 (/home/aawad/7ULL_Platform/fsimx6ul-Y1.0/unpacked_chromium/yocto-2.1-fus-Y1.0/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium_48.0.2548.0.bb, do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
Second Keyboard Interrupt, stopping...

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Thanks

kind regards

Ahmed

ahmedawad · Feb 28th 2019

Please do you have any idea when will the new yocto 2.4 be released, may be I can compile chromium without issues when the new release is there?

Thanks

kind regards

fs-support_PJ · Mar 12th 2019

Dear Ahmed,

sorry for my late response but we were busy because of the preparation and reworking of the exhibition. I tested you problem and can confirm this. It only occurs with fsimx6ul. On CPUs fsimx6 and fsimx6sx it works. The problem is that the fsimx6ul looking for the file include.gypi in different folders and doesnt find the file there. Thats why the do_fetch task of chromium fails. We need the folder armv7ve which doesnt exist. I have prepared a patch which creates the this folder. You will find the patch in the appendix.

To apply the patch you need the following steps:

copy the fsimx6ul-chromium.patch to your main yocto directory (same directory were you can find yocto-download).
Switch to this directory and apply the patch with the following command: patch -p1 < fsimx6ul-chromium.patch
Compile your yocto rootfs again

Like my colleague Mr. Keller said we are currently working on a new release which will use a newer Yocto version (most probably 2.4) which also contains a newer Chromium.

Your F&S Support Team

ahmedawad · Mar 12th 2019

Thank you very much. I will try out the patch.

Thanks,

kind regards

ahmedawad · Mar 14th 2019

Thanks again, I confirm that now chromium builds on efusA7UL module.

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