Linux build of OBS 29 fails with too-old CEF, no configure warning

[Rosuav]

Operating System Info

Other

Other OS

Debian Bullseye

OBS Studio Version

29.0.0-beta2

OBS Studio Version (Other)

No response

OBS Studio Log URL

n/a

OBS Studio Crash Log URL

No response

Expected Behavior

If OBS cannot compile against a particular CEF version, it should be caught by the configure phase.

Current Behavior

Build fails with error: ‘class CefWindowInfo’ has no member named ‘bounds’

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use an old CEF eg build 4280
2. Build OBS 29 from trunk
3. Observe errors

Anything else we should know?

Would be helpful to know the actual minimum CEF version required.

Incompatibility came in with obs-browser#7142b21

[gxalpha]

Would be helpful to know the actual minimum CEF version required.

We generally keep compatibility with the version we had prior to the one we currently use. We updated to 5060 / 103 in 28.0, so that would be 4638 / 95 from OBS 27.2.

That being said, since this is a feature that was introduced very recently there's a chance that it may not work with 4638 either as it likely wasn't tested with it, so your milage may very (though if it doesn't work it wouldn't be my call to make as to whether that should be fixed).

[Rosuav]

Yep fair enough! I'm about to update my CEF but in the light of this, I'll try testing on 4638 before going to 5060.

[Rosuav]

Can confirm: works on both 4638 and 5060. So the actual functionality is (probably) fine, it would just be nice to demonstrate a minimum CEF version.

[WizardCM]

Yeah could be worth documenting as part of CMake what the minimum is.

[rafalszm]

Would be helpful to know the actual minimum CEF version required.

We generally keep compatibility with the version we had prior to the one we currently use. We updated to 5060 / 103 in 28.0, so that would be 4638 / 95 from OBS 27.2.

That being said, since this is a feature that was introduced very recently there's a chance that it may not work with 4638 either as it likely wasn't tested with it, so your milage may very (though if it doesn't work it wouldn't be my call to make as to whether that should be fixed).

Hi, when is the CEF planned to be updated to one that supports the following CSS features? offset-distance: offset-path:

[RytoEX]

Would be helpful to know the actual minimum CEF version required.

We generally keep compatibility with the version we had prior to the one we currently use. We updated to 5060 / 103 in 28.0, so that would be 4638 / 95 from OBS 27.2. That being said, since this is a feature that was introduced very recently there's a chance that it may not work with 4638 either as it likely wasn't tested with it, so your milage may very (though if it doesn't work it wouldn't be my call to make as to whether that should be fixed).

Hi, when is the CEF planned to be updated to one that supports the following CSS features? offset-distance: offset-path:

All CEF progress and plans are tracked here: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/discussions/3853

[RytoEX]

Technically requires an obs-browser update in this repo to actually resolve this here.