how to compile the chromium browser source code

kim@ubuntu:~/workspace/kim$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.4 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

Are you after Chromium version 49?

There are PPAs with various versions of Chromium-browser

This PPA has version 50
https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-beta

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=chromium%2Dbrowser

Remember to filter the PPA for Trusty and you will see the packages offered for your release.

Why even bother compiling. The default repository has the version you are after
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/chromium-browser

Hi, actionparsnip

Thanks for comments.

I have download chromium-browser_49.0.2623.108.orig.tar.xz file and I still cannot compile it success.

 ./build/install-build-deps.sh success.
./build/gyp_chromium --depth=. failed

But why are you compiling at all?

Actually I want to make a chromium browser with source code, which load a default website page and have no address bar and toolbar. And it also cannot be closed and minimized. But now I still cannot compile the source code.

actionparsnip, could u kindly help me with this?

You won't get those options by compiling the application. Those are settings of the browser and of the underlying OS.

I just need a chromium browser like which does not have toolbar or address bar. I would like to make a show in a high school to conduct my website page, so I do not want the browser to have other functions.

The command

sudo apt-get build-dep chromium-browser

downloads all required dependencies to build (compile) the chromium-browser package

and the command

apt-get source --compile chromium-browser

will download the source and try compiling it (with help of dpkg-buildpackage).

You have to be aware that you will get the same executable files as those in the repositories.

Build failed on trusty amd64 in chroot. My steps:
1. debootstrap --variant=buildd --arch i386 trusty trusty_i386
2. copy my apt/sources.list to chroot
3. mount /dev/shm (tmpfs) in chroot
4. sudo chroot trusty_i386
5. apt-get update
6. apt-get source chromium-browser
7. apt-get build-dep chromium-browser
8. cd <source dir>
9. dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

Build failed after 1-2 hours with error:
FAILED: cd ../../v8/tools/gyp; ../../../out/Release/mksnapshot --random-seed 314159265 --startup_blob ../../../out/Release/snapshot_blob.bin ""
../../../out/Release/mksnapshot: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/chromium-browser-51.0.2704.79'
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

PS: I found libicui18n.so in libicu-dev, but compile also failed with this package with error:
FAILED: cd ../../v8/tools/gyp; ../../../out/Release/mksnapshot --random-seed 314159265 --startup_blob ../../../out/Release/snapshot_blob.bin ""
../../../out/Release/mksnapshot: symbol lookup error: ../../../out/Release/mksnapshot: undefined symbol: _ZTVN6icu_5613UnicodeStringE
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/chromium-browser-51.0.2704.79'
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Sorry, no idea.

Build success after i replaced chroot to schroot and started debootstrap with --foreign