RZ-G/Chromium

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

How to build Chromium 116.0.5845.187 for RZ/G2L,LC + VLP/Gv3.0.5

(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 dunfell-clang14
$ git clone https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser.git
$ cd meta-browser
$ git checkout e75da7cc83393b174220b808d96f8f05ab7ad4d2
$ cd ../
$ rm -rf meta-openembedded/
$ git clone https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded
$ cd meta-openembedded
$ git checkout 116bfe8d5e5851e7fc5424f40da8691a19c5b5ee

(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 "
PREFERRED_VERSION_nodejs-native = "14.%"

(5) Run bitbake

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

Chromium startup command

⚠️ Note: You must have an input device (USB mouse or touchscreen) plugged in before you start the browser. If you do not, you will get a "Segmentation fault"

chromium --no-sandbox --in-process-gpu --use-gl=desktop https://XXXXX

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