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Postby ppietro » 18 Jul 2009, 08:08

Hi everyone,

I'm kind of a sad panda today.

I was hoping to surprise you guys with some news about trying to build Google Chrome for Linux on YDL. I actually managed to get all the tools in place, download the Google Dev pieces, and pull a full source tree from SVN.

But - it won't build. And chances are - it never will.

They've limited it to Intel architecture only. It's hard coded in the source.

Why? Apparently, the key JavaScript engine - V8 - is written for Intel and is too tricky to compile for other architectures.

In a word - D'oh!

This doesn't make sense - wouldn't Google want Chrome to run on other processors? Like, wouldn't it make sense to support ARM at least, since that's what Android uses?

More info here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... structions
and here:
http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/danger ... lable.html

Read through the comments for the sad panda news.

So - sorry folks - at least for now - no Chrome for you... :(

Cheers,
Paul
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Re: Google Chrome news

Postby billb » 24 Jul 2009, 11:42

Ah -- that's a shame. :|
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Re: Google Chrome news

Postby ppietro » 24 Jul 2009, 21:21

billb wrote:Ah -- that's a shame. :|


I'm trying to build its ancestor - webkit. There are some dependency issues - so no good news there yet either - but at least they don't prohibit ppc builds.

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Re: Google Chrome news

Postby bonedome » 02 Nov 2009, 14:30

Hello
Why? Apparently, the key JavaScript engine - V8 - is written for Intel and is too tricky to compile for other architectures.
is this the same one used by firefox 3.5
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Re: Google Chrome news

Postby ppietro » 02 Nov 2009, 16:39

bonedome wrote:Hello
Why? Apparently, the key JavaScript engine - V8 - is written for Intel and is too tricky to compile for other architectures.
is this the same one used by firefox 3.5


Nope. They use something called "TraceMonkey".

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