NOTE:

While this repo should still be functional for the specific revision of CEF it was created for at the time, the project I originally created it for was abandoned when the company decided it didn't want to embed a web browser after all. This code has not been updated since and will likely not receive any more attention from me. In particular, I know that the CEF project was in the process of forcing the use of the sandbox when I stopped work on this. I did not spend any time determining what changes would be necessary to enable that functionality with those newer versions.

cef

Go bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF).

Currently works for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Initial setup required for Windows

• Download and run the installer from http://www.msys2.org/
• In the mingw64 msys2 console, run the following:
  • pacman -Syu
  • pacman -Su
  • pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-go mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config msys/git

Initial setup

In the root of the repo, run:

go install

Then add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH and run:

cef install

This will install the necessary CEF headers and libraries into /usr/local/cef.

Example application

https://github.com/richardwilkes/webapp and https://github.com/richardwilkes/webapp-example use these bindings to create an example desktop application (currently macOS and Windows only).

Updating the CEF version to be used

The CEF version can be updated in the main.go file by changing the desiredCEFVersion variable. If a different CEF version is pulled, the source files should be generated again by running go generate ./... on a macOS machine. Code generation might be possible on other platforms, but has not been tested there.