cef-rs

Use CEF in Rust.

Supported Targets

Usage

Linux

Manual Install

• Download Linux-64bit build.

• Copy files to .local:

cp -r Resources ~/.local/share/cef
cp -r Release ~/.local/share/cef

• 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=~/.local/share/cef 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

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Roadmap

Cef-rs is looking for the best approach to use CEF. On Linux, this is achived by using same local share directory or same flatpak runtime. So every application can share the same library. We are looking for the similar methods on macOS and Windows. Welcome to open feature requests if the feature you look for isn't listed below. But please understand that some requests might result into not planned.

Planned

• Add Linux ARM64 target
• Add macOS ARM64 target
• Add Windows x86_64 target

Not Planned

• Other package formats on Linux.
• Add all possible ergonomic interfaces (ie. builder types for attributes and settings.)
• Provide tools to bundle and distribute application.