Got it working. I double clicked on the ".sln" file and VS 2008 C++ loaded. Had to convert from 2005 project to 2008.
This is impressive.Thanks Pam. Ben On Sep 18, 2:44 am, "Ben Solomon (bts)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My PC seems to acting up. The IE7 chromium down load when extracted > did not have a".tar" extension. I renamed it and managed to extract > the file structure to the chromium sub-directory. Thanks. > > Another question. I downloaded Visual Studio Express 2008. How do I > use this to view the source? > > Thanks, > Ben > > On Sep 17, 11:37 pm, "Pam Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Ben Solomon (bts) > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Pam. You were right. The application I was using to download > > > the source tarball was appending ".gz" to the file name. And > > > surprisingly it was Google's Chrome. > > > Interesting, that's what I used too, and I didn't get the renaming. > > > > I used IE7 to correctly download > > > the source tarball. Used 7-Zip, and got one massive file. What do I do > > > with that? > > > It should now be called chromium.tar. Just extract it with 7-Zip > > again, and it'll give you a directory called chromium/ containing the > > source. > > > - Pam > > > > Ben > > > > On Sep 16, 1:28 pm, "Pam Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi, Ben (or anyone else who's had a similar problem), > > >> Have you had a chance to see whether 7-Zip worked on a renamed file? I'd > > >> like to add the suggestion to the instruction page, but only if I know it > > >> works. > > > >> - Pam > > > >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Pam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I just downloaded chromium.tgz (using Firefox) and unpacked it with > > >> > 7-Zip > > >> > with no problems. I'm using 7-Zip version 4.42, in case that matters. > > > >> > The first thing to try is to rename chromium.tgz.gz back to > > >> > chromium.tgz. > > >> > For whatever reason, the program you used to download the .tgz also > > >> > added > > >> > another ".gz" onto it, and I suspect that's confusing 7-Zip. > > > >> > If that doesn't fix things, run an md5sum utility on the chromium.tgz > > >> > file > > >> > and make sure the hash matches the one at > > >> >http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/archives/chromium.tgz.md5, to be sure > > >> > that your download isn't corrupted. You can find an md5sum.exe > > >> > application > > >> > using your favorite search engine. (I use one from Cygwin, so I don't > > >> > have > > >> > a particular md5sum.exe download to recommend; sorry about that.) > > > >> > Please let me know if that helps, or if you still have problems. > > > >> > - Pam > > > >> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Ben Solomon (bts) < > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> >> OK, 7-Zip did not work. I used bsdtar.exe per the instructionsin the > > >> >> Getting Started page. Windows XP does not like the instructions > > > >> >> "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe" -xzf chromium.tgz > > > >> >> because the file extension is incorrect. It should be > > > >> >> "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe" -xzf chromium.tgz.gz > > > >> >> And when it completed I got this error message: > > > >> >> chromium/src/third_party/libxslt/.svn/text-base/configure.svn-base: > > >> >> Premature end of gzip compressed data: Input/output error > > >> >> C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe: Error exit delayed from > > >> >> previous errors. > > > >> >> I'm not familiar with the linux/unix stuff. Anyone knows how to > > >> >> proceed from here? > > > >> >> Thanks, > > >> >> Ben > > > >> >> On Sep 14, 7:31 am, "Ben Solomon (bts)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> > Hi, I'm using 7-Zip to extract the chromium.tgz source tarball but > > >> >> > keep getting the error message "chromium is broken" early in the > > >> >> > extraction. > > > >> >> > Need help with resolving this. > > > >> >> > Thanks, > > >> >> > Ben- Hide quoted text - > > > >> - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
