Building CEF and Chromium

The first thing you're going to need to do is clone the brackets and brackets-shell repositories and build brackets-shell following the instructions from the brackets-shell repo.

Next you need to get the Depot_Tools and add it to your path

cd ~/
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git

Next open your .bash_profile or .bashrc and add ~/depot_tools to your path:

export PATH="$PATH":~/depot_tools

You also need to execute that line in bash or open a new terminal window.

Next you need to add googlecode to the list of trusted certificates for svn

svn list https://sctp-refimpl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/KERN/usrsctp/usrsctplib

Next you need to get gyp into a search path. I just copied the one from ~/brackets-shell/gyp to ~/depot_tools.

Next you need to start the process of getting the chromium and cef sources:

cd ~/
svn checkout http://chromiumembedded.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1547/cef3/tools/automate automate
cd ~/automate
python automate.py --url http://chromiumembedded.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1547/cef3 --download-dir download --ninja-build --no-release-build --force-build --force-distrib --force-config

Other flags (documented as we find and need them):

-–force-clean     (deletes intermediates)
--force-update    (deletes webkit so it can be downloaded again)

See also

CEF Debugging tips