how to build cef project for linux version on windows

Question

https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef-project

I have only one computer and it is windows 11.

I installed WSL and command wsl --install -d Ubuntu24.04.

I open visual studio and git clone cef project on my windows.

On my visual studio, it show this.

And then, I don't know what can I do .

By the way, I can build cef project for windows version on my windows11

Now, I want to build it on wsl with the same computer.

Answer 1

@alice alice ,

The link that you shared do describes the method to build that specific project(CEF) for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

It says:

The CEF examples included in this project can be built using either CMake or Bazel.

And

Using CMake

…

4 #To perform a Linxu build using a CEF binary distribution matching the host

#architecture (x64, ARM or ARM64):

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

make -j4

The steps don’t indicate/confirm that Visual Studio is needed when performing a Linux build for CEF project. Instead, for performing a Windows build it indicates to use Visual Studio like

#To perform a Windows build using a 64-bit CEF binary distribution:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 17" -A x64 ..

#Then, open build\cef.sln in Visual Studio 2022 and select Build > Build Solution.

So, have you tried the corresponding commands(cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. and make -j4 )? If you got any error message, or blocked, you probably need to confirm with Windows(wsl) team about whether wsl supports the commands and how to run those commands properly.

I added Windows 11 tag on this ticket, for better help.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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