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Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by freeboson on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:24PM (#22951927)
Do you have to build chromium with blaze? Or does it use e.g. cmake or something?
Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by jbroman on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:54PM (#22952418)
It's uses gn, a build system developed for Chromium. That said, on an Ubuntu system the steps to build Chromium are fairly well-documented and straightforward, as long as you have an appropriately beefy system (unfortunately it's a long wait and a fair amount of RAM is required, and Googlers tend to use a distributed build system).

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by tedmielczarek on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:17AM (#22955120)
gn is of course a meta-build system, the initials stand for "generate ninja". ninja does the actual build execution. The Firefox build system has a similar homegrown frontend called mozbuild, which generates Makefiles for the actual build.