Andrew/build overhaul

[ayjayt]

~Two~ Too many goals:

• [x] shore up education
  • [x] reread windows buiid
  • [x] reread linux build
  • [x] reread mac build
  • [x] whats going on with docker
  • Notes:
  • Linux is also copying over .so files, which is... unfortunate (was there no easy way to switch to static?): Other people working on chromium have other solutions, which seem to align more with google: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/pull/649/files, https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/pull/649, https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/556, https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_sysroot.md
  • More information: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/component_build.md (can check with ldd and otool -L)
  • https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/linux/build_instructions.md#Setting-up-the-build
  • We were just half-building in docker for some reason
  • [x] whats going on with packaging
• [x] document and get rid of weird bin builder, just add it to docs
• [x] make default source file for arch and cpus
• [x] command to run them all
• [x] make set_version # choose chromium version, choose platform, everything else is auto
• [x] make fetch_tools # git clone depot_tools
• [x] deal with spaces
• [x] add verbose flags
• [x] add latest flag
• [x] get os/architecture
• [x] utilities namespace
• [x] test with circle ci, reconfigure
• [x] update template
• [x] Get docker dockering
• [x] add docker and all to bin
• [x] stages to src
• [ ] finish init_tools # look at note in fetch_chromium.ps1, info changes based on version/platform?
  • [ ] check get build dependencies
  • [ ] read them
  • [ ] run on linux
  • [ ] get on windows
  • [ ] run on windows
  • [ ] run on circle ci
• [ ] start description doc
• [ ] make sync # runs gclient
  • [x] why did we need gclient?- we don't use fetch since it pulls too much
  • [ ] reread fetch script above to see if it accepts other arguments now
  • [ ] build_deps.sh may work instead of make init_tools
• [ ] make gen_meta # CREDITS, license.py, version, README, etc
• [ ] make patch # runs patches based on versions
• [ ] make config_build # appends kaleido instructions to BUILD.gn, runs gn gen out
• [ ] need to specify target arch
• [ ] make compile # runs ninja
• [ ] API
  • [x] read new api
  • [ ] Remove dependency on base::?
  • [ ] Update chromium api?
  • [ ] Improve error handling
• [ ] make extract_build # changes based on version! see next point as well. also does mathjax, etc.
• [ ] make npm # does npm stuff
• [ ] make javascript # copies npm stuff
• [ ] make wheel # duh
• [ ] some unit tests
• [ ] where to document dependencies

[ayjayt]

• [x] circleci is just turned off completely, need to figure out how to turn it on for master + all pull requests

[ayjayt]

Just marked as ready for review to see if it will build on circle-ci

[ayjayt]

Attaching some notes to make it into the docs:

• Build split is in process, can't assume (don't want to) shared execution environment, so we use temp files/cache to communicate between parts of the process
• CircleCI should not contain much logic except:
  • Specifying build environment
  • Installing build system dependencies (git, bash, rsync, etc)- not build dependencies, ie not shared libraries (windows sdk)
  • Flags for cross compiling (really no way around this if we're tyring to save money)