CEF download, compile project

If you want to use CEF, Need to download CEF. There are generally two ways ：

1. Compiled source code ： Need to use svn perhaps git download Chromium and CEF Source code .
2. Build versions automatically ： Use the semi-finished product of compiled kernel , This version provides most of the compiled dynamic libraries and resources , Developers only need to compile one manually wrapper Static library is ok .

In order to simplify the operation , More convenient experience CEF, Instead of wasting a lot of time compiling source code , Take the second way .

download CEF

Official download website ：https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/index.html

CEF Automatically build multiple platforms and versions , Choose here Windows 64 Platform Standard Distribution file .（ The download of domestic environment is a little slow , Special means can be used to speed up the download .）

Different platforms have a common structure , Introduce to you Standard Distribution Folder structure of version ：

• cmake: Include all targets shared CMake The configuration file .

• Debug： contain libcef.dll、 libcef.lib And build run based on CEF Debug versions of other components required by the application . By default , These files should be placed in the same directory as the executable , And copy it there as part of the build process .CEF Dynamic library （libcef.dll on Windows, libcef.so on Linux, “Chromium Embedded Framework.framework” on OS X）
• include： Include all necessary CEF The header file .
• libcef_dll： contain libcef_dll_wrapper The source code of the static library , All use CEF C++API All applications must link to the Library .
• Release： Same as Debug. contain libcef.dll、 libcef.lib And others need to build and run based on CEF Release version of the application
• Resources： contain libcef.dll Resources needed
• tests： demonstration CEF Usage of demo And test cases .

Each binary package contains a README.txt Documents and a LICENSE.txt file ,README.txt To describe the details related to the platform , and LICENSE.txt contain CEF Of BSD copyright . If you publish based on CEF Application , The copyright notice should be included somewhere in the application .

Please refer to README.txt file , Know which files are required , What can be safely omitted .

CMake structure

Use CMake Conduct CEF Project construction , stay Where is the source code Box, select the downloaded and unzipped cef Folder , stay cef Create a folder in the folder “build”, stay Where to build binaries Select this... In the box build Folder

In turn, click CMake At the bottom of the Configure Button ,Generate Button generate file , What I use here is VS2022, meanwhile , hold CMAKE_INSTALL_PERFIX The path has been changed （ at will ）

And then click Open Project Will use VS Open the project

• ALL_BUILD And ZERO_CHECK： yes cmake Automatically generated auxiliary engineering .
• cef_gtest and ceftests： Are all test modules
• cefclient： A contain CEF Various API Demo browser program Demo.
• cefsimple： A simple CEF Browser program Demo.
• libcef_dll_wrapper： Yes libcef Library C++ Code encapsulation . Above cefclient And cefsimple You can use it .

Here you can directly answer cefclient Right click to set as startup item ,Ctrl + F5 Start the program .

Wait a moment , Then the program is executed , By default, Google home page is opened , If open blank , It's because you can't access Google .

Can be directly in VS Mid search www.google.com To change the code , Found it in cefclient-browser-main_context_impl.cc In the document , Changed it to www.baidu.com Run again and it will be normal .


cefsimple Empathy , stay cefsimple->simpleapp.cc in

  url = command_line->GetSwitchValue("url");
  if (url.empty())
    url = "http://www.google.com";// Change to another website 
);

compile libcef_dll_wrapper

In fact, the most important thing is libcef_dll_wrapper Is it found that it has not been compiled , Of course not. , We're compiling cefclient When , By the way .
Path is generated

build\libcef_dll_wrapper\Debug\libcef_dll_wrapper.lib

We can also view items , You will find that this library has already been set in the project properties .