

Building and running Chromium with Chromium OS UI on your local machine You can test sign-in/sync in this mode by adding the -login-manager flag, see the Login notes section. The entire system UI runs in a single X11 window on your desktop. In this configuration most system services (like the power manager, bluetooth daemon, etc.) are stubbed out. For example, the login UI, window manager and system UI are part of the Chromium code base and built into the chrome binary.įortunately, most Chromium changes that affect Chromium OS can be built and tested on a Linux workstation. Chromium OS on Linux (linux-chromeos)Ĭhromium on Chromium OS uses Linux Chromium as a base, but adds a large number of Chrome OS-specific features to the code. gclient file is updated, you will need to run gclient sync once before proceeding with the rest of these instructions. gclient file, you can simply append 'chromeos' to the existing list there. If you already have a target_os line present in your. If you don't already have a target_os line present, simply add this to the end of the. This file is located one level up from your Chromium checkout’s src.

gclient configuration, which will fetch the additional build dependencies required for CrOS. You‘ll also need to add 'chromeos' to the target_os list in your.
