Electron Build Steps (Linux)

Follow the instructions below to build Electron on Linux .

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7.x. Some distributions such as CentOS still use Python 2.6.x, so you may need to check your Python version python -V .
• Node.js v0.12.x. T here are many ways to install Node. You can .js the original file from the Node database and compile it . . . you can also install node . . . as a standard user in the home directory, or try using nodeSource .
• Clang 3.4 or the updated version.
• GTK plus development header files and libnotify.

At Ubuntu, install the following library:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential clang libdbus-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
                       libnotify-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgconf2-dev \
                       libasound2-dev libcap-dev libcups2-dev libxtst-dev \
                       libxss1 libnss3-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib

At Fedora, install the following library:

$ sudo yum install clang dbus-devel gtk2-devel libnotify-devel libgnome-keyring-devel \
                   xorg-x11-server-utils libcap-devel cups-devel libXtst-devel \
                   alsa-lib-devel libXrandr-devel GConf2-devel nss-devel

Other versions may provide similar packages to install through package managers such as pacman. Or one that compiles the source file.

Use a virtual machine

If you build Electron on a virtual machine, you need a fixed-size device that requires at least 25 gigabytes .

Get the code

$ git clone https://github.com/electron/electron.git

Bootstrapping

Bootstrap scripts are also necessary to download build dependencies to create project files. P ython 2.7.x is required for the script to execute successfully. D ownloading files correctly can take a long time. Note that we are ninja to build Electron, so there is no Makefile

$ cd electron
$ ./script/bootstrap.py -v

Cross-compilation

If you want to create an arm target, you should also download the following dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-armhf-cross linux-libc-dev-armhf-cross \
                       g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf

In order to arm ia32 targets, you bootstrap.py for the --target_arch parameter:

$ ./script/bootstrap.py -v --target_arch=arm

Build

Create Release Debug Target:

$ ./script/build.py

This script may create a huge executable Electron under directory out/R . T he file size may exceed 1.3 gigabytes. The reason is that the Release target binary contains the create-dist.py script to reduce the size of the file:

$ ./script/create-dist.py

This dist with a large number of small files in the dist directory. After create-dist.py script, perhaps you want to delete the 1.3 plus gigabyte binary that is still under out/R

You can create Debug target:

$ ./script/build.py -c D

Once created, you can find electron below out/D electron .

Cleaning

Remove the build file:

$ ./script/clean.py

Fix the problem

Make sure you've installed all the dependencies .

Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libtinfo.so.5

Pre-built clang attempts to link to libtinfo.so.5 . Depending on the host architecture, libncurses :

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5

Tests

Test your modifications to match the project code style, using:

$ ./script/cpplint.py

Test effectiveness use:

$ ./script/test.py