RZ-G/Chromium

This page contains information about builds and using Chromium with the Renesas BSP.

How to build Chromium104.0.5112.101 for RZ/G2L,LC + VLP/Gv3.0.3

• (1) Follow "3. Build Instructions" described in the Release Note until 3.1(5) .　
  • RZ/G Verified Linux Package V3.0.3 Release Note (renesas.com)

• (2) Perform the following steps to prepare the recipe for the Chromium build.

$ git clone https://github.com/kraj/meta-clang -b clang12
$ git clone https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser.git
$ cd meta-browser
$ git checkout b8e658b5a4da60a0d297fb7c2cdb7c7c251ec8bf

• (3) Perform the following steps to add Chromium build settings to the configuration file.

$ cd ../build
$ bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-clang
$ bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-browser/meta-chromium
$ bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-openembedded/meta-networking

• (4) Add the following lines to local.conf(build/conf/local.conf) manually.

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " chromium-ozone-wayland"
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " ntp"
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho "

• (5) Run bitbake

$ MACHINE=smarc-rzg2l bitbake core-image-weston

• Chromium startup command

chromium --no-sandbox --in-process-gpu -kiosk https://XXXXX

Note: Currently, the HW codec has not been supported yet.