CEF-CMake

CMake files for sane usage of CEF (the Chromium Embedded Framework).

This project is still a work in progress. Things will change quickly with no regard for backwards compatibility until this note is removed.

Note that this project is not applicable for building CEF itself, but only for using it as a library in another project.

Rationale

The CEF project provide their own CMake files, but they have several outstanding issues:

• They use old-style CMake (no target_* macros).
• They force the use of many potentially unwanted compiler settings (no exceptions, no RTTI, C++11)

Hence projects which don't want to conform to any of this are forced to use their own solutions.

CEF-CMake fixes this and provides a CMakeLists.txt file to make using CEF easy.

CEF-CMake features

• Uses modern CMake
• Doesn't force any compiler settings except the minimum required:
  • /MT instead of /MTd for Visual C when sandbox mode is enabled
• Provides the cefdll_wrapper static library target
• Downloads a CEF binary build from Spotify's CEF automated builds
• Copies CEF binaries and resources next to target executables appropriately

Usage

• You can have this project as a submodule of yours or somewhere in your directory tree. Doesn't matter.
• In your root CMakeLists.txt include <this_project_dir>/cmake/cef_cmake.cmake.
• Add this project's directory as a subdirectory. This defines the static library target cefdll_wrapper
• Add cefdll_wrapper to the link libraries of your CEF executables

Mac-specific instructions to come

Example

Another project of mine - cef-demos - includes this one as a submodule and provides some CEF demos, all using CEF-CMake.

License and copyright

This software is distributed under the MIT Software License.

See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy here.

Copyright © 2019 Borislav Stanimirov