Thrust v0.7

[spolu]

ExoBrowser will undego a major overhaul to reach version v0.7. The changes include:

TODOS

• move exo_browser to brightray [@spolu]
• remove nodeJS event loop and expose API over unix domain sockets [@spolu]
• move to <webview> support instead of ExoFrames [@spolu]
• Mac OS X version (fix build errors)
• Windows version (fix build errors & add code needed)
• Add Menu Items API Expose Menu / Menu Item API #157
  • OSX
  • Aura
• Add support for webkit draggable and frameless
• Add support for TopBar Status Icon
• Update UI to Aura Port ExoBrowser to Aura #142

[spolu]

The following branch is tracking the changes: https://github.com/breach/exo_browser/tree/wip-0.7

[miketheprogrammer]

@spolu I am seeing some great code :). I however need to get a linux development environment set up. The build currently does not work on Mac, and my linux VM has too many errors trying to open the browser. (mostly due to lack of opengl support).

Gonna try to get my exo building on my Kali Linux box later. Its a very crappy machine that could not handle the full chromium build, but should def be able to handle the new brightray build.

[spolu]

Awesome! I'll try make it work on OSX before the end of the week! :)

[nearsyh]

There is no DEPS in this branch. So we use the latest chromium or the version in the master branch? Or we use brightray instead of chromium now?

[spolu]

See scripts/bootstrap.py it uses libchromiumcontent. No more long builds ;-)

[nearsyh]

Great! So how to build it now on mac?

[spolu]

First run the boostrap script:

./scripts/bootstrap.py 

Then generate build files with:

GYP_GENERATORS=ninja gyp --depth . exo_shell.gyp

Finally run ninja:

ninja -C out/Debug exo_shell

[spolu]

There are still some build errors on OSX. I'll try to fix them today

[spolu]

@nearsyh should build now. Still some errors when running... Some .gyp file tweaking is still required (frameworks and resources are not properly found by the app at runtime)

[nearsyh]

When I run on mac with the following command

open ExoShell.app

it outputs

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810

.

And -10810 is referenced as unknown error in Apple's document. Does anyone have any idea about how to fix this?
Also, if I run the executable in the app directory directly, it will print this :

[0808/203848:FATAL:content_main_runner.cc(751)] Check failed: base::i18n::InitializeICU().

[spolu]

The later error needs to be addressed first. It is related to the fact that the executable can't find icutl.dat in its resources... Probably due to some erroneous build config ATM since the file is in the Resources directory of the bundle.

[spolu]

Anybody willibg to take a stab at it (I'm on holidays and I only have a machine on Linux with me)