> 5.mini_installer.exe and setup.exe? I can't execute them. What're they used for?Try reading the source code - it has actually a lot of useful comments. Such as mini_installer.cc has comments on how mini_installer and setup relate.
If you can't run them you might be hitting an issue some of us have had on Visual Studio 2008 - where the build process corrupts the manifest files - try searching the email archives for that. Good luck, Sverrir On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Dean McNamee <[email protected]> wrote: > > You could answer a lot of these questions yourself, with a little bit > of digging or a Google search. I'll try to give you a boost though. > > 2009/6/15 <[email protected]>: > > I began to read chromium's source codes, and got caught in these trival > > questions: > > > > 1. what's gfx? I always see that. > > gfx:: is a namespace where lots of our graphics related code lives. > See base/gfx and app/gfx. > > > > > 2. what's the usage of .gyp files? > > Something like cmake, a meta-language to declare our build > configuration, and then generate Visual Studio, Scons, Makefiles, > XCode projects. This happens transparently by "gclient", or manually > by "gclient runhooks --force". > > http://code.google.com/p/gyp/ > > > > > 3.Is gmock used to help automation test? What else does chrome use for > > automation test? I'm curious about that. > > gmock was just recently introduced. I'm not sure if or where we are using > it. > > > > > 4.gcapi confused me, what is it? > > > > 5.mini_installer.exe and setup.exe? I can't execute them. What're they > used > > for? > > Search the lists for discussions on this. I don't know much about how > our installer works, but these are part of it. > > > > > 6.what is courgette? and used for? > > Helping to make the downloads of incremental updates smaller. > > http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/05/courgette.html > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
