cef-rs - Emebbed CEF into Rust Application

Supported Targets

Target	Linux	macOS	Windows
x86_64	✅	✅	✅
ARM64	✅	✅	✅

Usage

Linux

Manual Install

• Download Linux-64bit prebuilt with sys/upgrade.rs:

cd sys
./upgrade.rs x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --download

• Build and run the application with LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or you can also add rpath to your cargo config or build script):

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=sys/cef/archive cargo r --example demo

Flatpak

• Install flatpak runtime & sdk:

flatpak install flathub dev.crabnebula.Platform
flatpak install flathub dev.crabnebula.Sdk

• Setup cargo project for flatpak. See flatpak-builder-tools for more details. Here are files you will need to have at leaset:

  • flatpak-cargo-generator.py
  • flatpak manifest file (ie. app.example.demo.yml)

• Build the flatpak application and run:

cargo b --example demo
python3 ./flatpak-cargo-generator.py ./Cargo.lock -o cargo-sources.json
touch run.sh
flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean target app.example.demo.yml
flatpak run app.example.demo

Windows

Manual Install

• Download Windows-64bit prebuilt with sys/upgrade.rs

cd sys
cargo +nightly -Zscript upgrade.rs x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --download

• Build and run the demo with PATH in powershell

$env:PATH += ';sys/cef/archive/windows/x86_64;'
cargo run --example demo

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.