The first thing I thought of when I read this was that you might not have all the prerequisites for building...
Have you gone through this document and verified that? http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows As a data point I can tell you that most of the code contributors use Visual Studio and many newcomers have reported success at building Chrome using these instructions. Best regards, Finnur On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 14:48, Handy13 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to be able to compile and run chrome in order to use it in > debug mode to test a relatively unrelated problem I am having with a > DirectX source filter that I wrote. > > I downloaded the tarball, ran the commands to generate the chrome.sln > file. The packages appear to load correctly into Visual Studio > although I have never before seen folder symbols with dotted outlines > in the Solution Explorer and don't know what that could possibly mean. > > I have "synced" everything. > > When I compile I get a lot of good compiles and several hundred errors > in various modules. Here are a few random samples: > > 1>.\scoped_variant_win.cc(83) : error C2664: 'VariantCopy' : cannot > convert parameter 2 from 'const VARIANT *' to 'VARIANTARG *' > 1>.\process_util_win.cc(586) : error C2065: > 'PSAPI_WORKING_SET_INFORMATION' : undeclared identifier > 1>.\process_util_win.cc(586) : error C2065: 'buffer' : undeclared > identifier > 10>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include > \ws2tcpip.h(284) : error C2039: 'Byte' : is not a member of > 'in6_addr::<unnamed-tag>' > 17>c:\AB\chromium\src\chrome\third_party\wtl\include\atlmisc.h(336) : > error C2673: 'CRect' : global functions do not have 'this' pointers > > etc., etc... > > What I really need is a simple tar file (or gz or whatever) containing > JUST what is needed to compile and run the Chrome browser (or any > other browser that can play Flash Videos) so I can get a handle on a > problem I am trying to solve related to my source filter and the flash > video from one particular site. > > Has anyone ever been able to successfully compile and run Chrome > within Visual Studio? Would anyone be willing to make a tar file > containing just the essentials that I need and send it to me? Or tell > me what else I need to do to get rid of the errors? > > Thanks, > > Howard > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
