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I was getting ready to blog a bit about attending DFUN and CUFP–both co-located with ICFP–and noticed I had this draft sitting around. I was hoping to send it out as a “ha ha, look how hard it was to build Chromium, but now it’s working!”

But now, it’s a “ha ha building Chromium was so hard, er… I failed!”

So folllow along won’t you on my trip to FAIL…

• Following Google’s Win32 build instructions, download Google’s depot tools [ZIP] & install in C:\depot_tools (blah)
• Follow directions to get version of source
• Download & install Visual Studios Express 2005 (C++)
• Download & install Visual studios service pack 1
• Download & install Microsoft SDK for Vista
• Run Start Menu -> Microsoft Windows SDK -> Visual Studios Integration
• Download & install Microsoft SDK for Server 2003 (to get ATL; Server 2008 won’t run on Express 2005)
• Run Start Menu -> Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 2003 R2 -> Visual Studios Integration (since order of integration may matter)
• Since the above didn’t work, add paths as per this help forum thead
• Also add C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\atl
• Disable exception config as per this thread
• Re-order includes as per this thread
• Make WTL changes (hey, why not) as in this this post
• Ask work for a full-blown copy of VS2005. Get handed a copy of VS2003.
• Go back and get a stack of MSDN discs. Find out it’s got the MSDN libary, SQL Server developer edition and… a bunch of little utilities
• Throw up your hands and fly to Victoria for a week of hiking and 3 days of functional programming immersion. Ahhh…

If you are interested in building Win32 Chromium with free tools you might want to follow this thread on building Chromium with Visual Studios 2005 Express. I assume someday it will work.