amirul Posted March 14, 2019 Posted March 14, 2019 Source from: https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/source Wonder how hard it is to cross compile to Arm?
talraash Posted March 14, 2019 Posted March 14, 2019 It's just chromium fork with minor tweaks... Use instruction for chromium.
amirul Posted March 15, 2019 Author Posted March 15, 2019 15 hours ago, talraash said: It's just chromium fork with minor tweaks... Use instruction for chromium. There seems to be quite a bit looking at https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/log/ This one in particular looks interesting https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commit/?id=865b5dd012bc5de8e6bbb8d9b1c024486af65448
AndrewDB Posted March 16, 2019 Posted March 16, 2019 On 3/14/2019 at 7:47 AM, amirul said: Source from: https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/source Wonder how hard it is to cross compile to Arm? Why can't you natively compile? Both Armbian Debian and Armbian Ubuntu are perfectly able to natively compile chromium.
amirul Posted March 19, 2019 Author Posted March 19, 2019 On 3/16/2019 at 1:28 PM, AndrewDB said: Why can't you natively compile? Both Armbian Debian and Armbian Ubuntu are perfectly able to natively compile chromium. Well I tried it on my MX10, got stuck at gclient sync. I think I'll leave it to more capable people
AndrewDB Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, amirul said: got stuck at gclient sync. Building chromium/iridium requires that you install a couple of specific packages from Google, including the gclient tool which is not part of Ubuntu. Basically you have to install all the tools and dependencies to build chromium, in order to build iridium. You should really start here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_build_instructions.md Build chromium first, then you should be set to build iridium. And I agree that it's not an easy task. Edit: it seems the Gentoo people have been giving a go at compiling chromium natively on aarch64, see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8193970.html Edited March 19, 2019 by AndrewDB More information added
amirul Posted March 19, 2019 Author Posted March 19, 2019 27 minutes ago, AndrewDB said: Edit: it seems the Gentoo people have been giving a go at compiling chromium natively on aarch64, see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8193970.html Had a look at the thread and came to the conclusion that the build is REALLY beyond me. I'll just go back to tweaking FREETYPE_PROPERTIES in /etc/environment & chrome://flags 1
amirul Posted April 1, 2019 Author Posted April 1, 2019 It's working really well on my Intel boxes. Would anyone be interested on a bounty to package the binary so that we can install it on our wonderful Armbian TV boxes ?
AndrewDB Posted April 3, 2019 Posted April 3, 2019 Hmmm, are you sure the project has not been abandoned? I see the last commit was 5 months ago, an eternity as far as chromium development is concerned. Note that this is absolutely not a criticism of the iridium project and developers, it's just the fact that Google has a gadzillion man*hours*$ to throw at Chromium development... https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/
amirul Posted April 3, 2019 Author Posted April 3, 2019 51 minutes ago, AndrewDB said: Hmmm, are you sure the project has not been abandoned? I see the last commit was 5 months ago, an eternity as far as chromium development is concerned. Note that this is absolutely not a criticism of the iridium project and developers, it's just the fact that Google has a gadzillion man*hours*$ to throw at Chromium development... https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/ I see your point, and there doesn't seem to be a user forum anywhere. Pity cos its quick without all the google stuff. Oh well, I'll just keep using it on my x86 boxes until I can't anymore.
amirul Posted April 13, 2019 Author Posted April 13, 2019 https://github.com/iridium-browser/iridium-browser/releases iridium-browser-2019.04.73 just dropped which if I'm reading it correctly, is up to chromium 73.0.3683.103 Signs of life?
amirul Posted April 25, 2019 Author Posted April 25, 2019 https://chat.osb-alliance.de Got in the iridium devs chat room. I'll ask very nicely for an armbian port
amirul Posted May 3, 2019 Author Posted May 3, 2019 ungoogled-chromium is quite speedy as well but sadly, no arm binaries https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
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