Re:Zebkit – Chromium's engine as a library you link, not a r...
by Riiiiichard on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:20AM
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Thanks, that's really useful coming from someone shipping CEF in production, and ZShot looks great.
And you pointed a real gap: the release archives contain no license or notice files, I will add them in next release. Thank you!
Also, very much with you in terms of exposing those libs ( like PDFium and FFmpeg ) to consumers, it lowers the shipping burden by quite a bit and just enables so much.
A note to anyone going down this road, just as an aside: actually shipping w/ Chromium ( and especially w/ FFmpeg ) can get complicated. If you're shipping on Mac OS, you'll want to worry about notarizing all your helpers along with your main process ( I'm assuming Zebkit still running w/ helper processes ). Similar w/ FFmpeg if you're linking to the FFmpeg libs. And, w/ FFmpeg, just validating that your license compliance is in fact what you want to be shipping w/ - FFmpeg has GPL and LGPL modes, so making sure you have selected the right one is important. If I recall Blink is LGPL as well, so making sure you meet what's required there has some distribution effects that are important.