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1 # Mac Build Instructions

2

3 **Generally, this page is obsolete and you should look at

4 [the new page instead](mac_build_instructions.md).**

5

6 [TOC]

7

8 Google employee? See [go/building-chrome-mac](https://goto.google.com/building-c hrome-mac) for extra tips.

9

10 ## Prerequisites

11

12 * A Mac running 10.9+.

13 * [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode) 7.3+.

14 * [depot\_tools](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/depottools).

15 * The OSX 10.10 SDK. Run

16 ```

17 ls `xcode-select -p`/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs

18 ```

19 to check whether you have it. Building with the 10.11 SDK works too, but

20 the releases currently use the 10.10 SDK.

21

22 ## Getting the code

23

24 [Check out the source code](https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the- code)

25 using Git.

26

27 Before checking out, go to the

28 [waterfall](http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/) and check that the

29 source tree is open (to avoid pulling a broken tree).

30

31 The path to the build directory should not contain spaces (e.g. not

32 `~/Mac OS X/chromium`), as this will cause the build to fail. This includes your

33 drive name, the default "Macintosh HD2" for a second drive has a space.

34

35 ## Building

36

37 Chromium on OS X is built using the [Ninja](ninja_build.md) tool and

38 the [Clang](clang.md) compiler. See both of those pages for further details on

39 how to tune the build.

40

41 Run

42

43 gn gen out/gn

44

45 to generate build files (replace "gn" in "out/gn" with whatever you like), and

46 then run

47

48 ninja -C out/gn chrome

49

50 to build. You can edit out/gn/args.gn to configure the build.

51

52 Before you build, you may want to

53 [install API keys](https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/how-to s/api-keys)

54 so that Chrome-integrated Google services work. This step is optional if you

55 aren't testing those features.

56

57 ## Faster builds

58

59 Full rebuilds are about the same speed in Debug and Release, but linking is a

60 lot faster in Release builds.

61

62 Put

63

64 is_debug = false

65

66 in your args.gn to do a release build.

67

68 Put

69

70 is_component_build = true

71

72 in your args.gn to build many small dylibs instead of a single large executable.

73 This makes incremental builds much faster, at the cost of producing a binary

74 that opens less quickly. Component builds work in both debug and release.

75

76 Put

77

78 symbol_level = 1

79

80 in your args.gn to disable debug symbols altogether. This makes both full

81 rebuilds and linking faster (at the cost of not getting symbolized backtraces

82 in gdb).

83

84 You might also want to [install ccache](ccache_mac.md) to speed up the build.

85

86 ## Running

87

88 All build output is located in the `out` directory (in the example above,

89 `~/chromium/src/out`). You can find the applications at

90 `gn/Content Shell.app` and `gn/Chromium.app`.

91

92 ## Unit Tests

93

94 We have several unit test targets that build, and tests that run and pass. A

95 small subset of these is:

96

97 * `unit_tests` from `chrome/chrome.gyp`

98 * `base_unittests` from `base/base.gyp`

99 * `net_unittests` from `net/net.gyp`

100 * `url_unittests` from `url/url.gyp`

101

102 When these tests are built, you will find them in the `out/gn`

103 directory. You can run them from the command line:

104

105 ~/chromium/src/out/gn/unit_tests

106

107

108 ## Coding

109

110 According to the

111 [Chromium style guide](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/coding-style) code is

112 [not allowed to have whitespace on the ends of lines](https://google.github.io/s tyleguide/cppguide.html#Horizontal_Whitespace).

113

114 Run `git cl format` after committing to your local branch and before uploading

115 to clang-format your code.

116

117 ## Debugging

118

119 Good debugging tips can be found

120 [here](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/debugging-on-os-x). If you

121 would like to debug in a graphical environment, rather than using `lldb` at the

122 command line, that is possible without building in Xcode. See

123 [Debugging in Xcode](http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/debugging-on-os- x/building-with-ninja-debugging-with-xcode)

124 for information on how.

125

126 ## Contributing

127

128 Once you’re comfortable with building Chromium, check out

129 [Contributing Code](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code) for

130 information about writing code for Chromium and contributing it.

131

132 ## Using Xcode-Ninja Hybrid

133

134 While using Xcode is unsupported, gn supports a hybrid approach of using ninja

135 for building, but Xcode for editing and driving compilation. Xcode is still

136 slow, but it runs fairly well even with indexing enabled. Most people

137 build in the Terminal and write code with a text editor though.

138

139 With hybrid builds, compilation is still handled by ninja, and can be run by the

140 command line (e.g. ninja -C out/gn chrome) or by choosing the chrome target

141 in the hybrid workspace and choosing build.

142

143 To use Xcode-Ninja Hybrid pass --ide=xcode to `gn gen`

144

145 ```shell

146 gn gen out/gn --ide=xcode

147 ```

148

149 Open it:

150

151 ```shell

152 open out/gn/ninja/all.xcworkspace

153 ```

154

155 You may run into a problem where http://YES is opened as a new tab every time

156 you launch Chrome. To fix this, open the scheme editor for the Run scheme,

157 choose the Options tab, and uncheck "Allow debugging when using document

158 Versions Browser". When this option is checked, Xcode adds

159 `--NSDocumentRevisionsDebugMode YES` to the launch arguments, and the `YES` gets

160 interpreted as a URL to open.

161

162 If you have problems building, join us in `#chromium` on `irc.freenode.net` and

163 ask there. As mentioned above, be sure that the

164 [waterfall](http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/) is green and the tree

165 is open before checking out. This will increase your chances of success.

166

167 ## Improving performance of `git status`

168

169 `git status` is used frequently to determine the status of your checkout. Due

170 to the number of files in Chromium's checkout, `git status` performance can be

171 quite variable. Increasing the system's vnode cache appears to help. By

172 default, this command:

173

174 sysctl -a \| egrep kern\..*vnodes

175

176 Outputs `kern.maxvnodes: 263168` (263168 is 257 * 1024). To increase this

177 setting:

178

179 sudo sysctl kern.maxvnodes=$((512*1024))

180

181 Higher values may be appropriate if you routinely move between different

182 Chromium checkouts. This setting will reset on reboot, the startup setting can

183 be set in `/etc/sysctl.conf`:

184

185 echo kern.maxvnodes=$((512*1024)) \| sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

186

187 Or edit the file directly.

188

189 If your `git --version` reports 2.6 or higher, the following may also improve

190 performance of `git status`:

191

192 git update-index --untracked-cache

193

194 ## Xcode license agreement

195

196 If you're getting the error

197

198 ```

199 Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as ro ot via sudo.

200 ```

201

202 the Xcode license hasn't been accepted yet which (contrary to the message) any

203 user can do by running:

204

205 xcodebuild -license

206

207 Only accepting for all users of the machine requires root:

208

209 sudo xcodebuild -license

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