Chromium on IMX8

[Giacomo_]

Hello community,
I am trying to compile the chromium-ozone-wayland based on Yocto hardknott (imx-5.10.35-2.0.0.xml) on IMX8MQEVK board, but the compilation fails with the error:

| Package dri was not found in the pkg-config search path.
| Perhaps you should add the directory containing `dri.pc'
| to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
| No package 'dri' found
|
| See //content/gpu/BUILD.gn:141:18: which caused the file to be included.
| configs += [ "//build/config/linux/dri" ]
| ^-------------------------
| WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.

In my previous version (Yocto Warrior) I was able to fix it by adding this dependency:

DEPENDS += " mesa "

but this trick no longer works, has anyone successfully compiled chromium?
I know... There is no support for Chromium, I am just asking.

[Rita_Wang]

https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors-Knowledge-Base/Adding-Chromium-to-L5-4-24-2-1-0-I-MX8MQ...You can refer to this.

[Jeroen_H]

Hi!

Thanks for pointing us out to the document. I've already gone through these steps.

Unfortunately, adding mesa to the depends, and building seperately still produced errors during do_configure().

Kind regards,

Jeroen.

[Giacomo_]

Backporting? Yes, I can evaluate this too, thanks.

[Giacomo_]

here you are my bbappend:

chromium-ozone-wayland_83.0.4103.116.bbappend

it contains only one line:

DEPENDS += " mesa "

[Jeroen_H]

Okay, thanks, I'll have a look

[Jeroen_H · Accepted solution]

Just to let you know, I'm trying to buildby using this patch right now:

https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/issues/528

Seach for "0013-Only-DRI-for-x11.txt" and adapt to your code version.

But, it takes a while to build Chromium, I'll post my finding later.

Hopefully DRI isn't needed on iMX8 and Wayland.

Cheers,

Jeroen.

[Giacomo_]

Yes please, let me know the outcome.

[Jeroen_H]

Hi,

Building succeeded, I have chromium (83.0.4103.116) running now on iMX8M Mini, weston-wayland, and using the GPU of the iMX.

I'm using Zeus btw.

Performance looks good.

Still doing some testing, but I think you can take it from here

Jeroen.

[r_trivedi123]

Hi Jeroen,
Can you share,

Which BSP you used ?
How did you build (for wayland running on GPU ) ? , basically build step doc or pointers.
Any performance statistics or issues you found ?

Appreciate your guidance.

--
Thanks
Rutvij

[Giacomo_]

Kudos to Jeroen (not the button only).

This is the way to go.

Thank you for helping!

[Jeroen_H]

Hi,

I have the same issue (iMX8M Mini, using Zeus 5.4.47) , no solution found yet.
Can you tell me the exact version of Yocto Warrior (or actually the version of Chromium) you've been using previously?

Just wanted to have a look at the differences....