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Build Instructions (Linux)
Follow the guidelines below for building Electron itself on Linux, for the purposes of creating custom Electron binaries. For bundling and distributing your app code with the prebuilt Electron binaries, see the application distribution guide.
Prerequisites
- At least 25GB disk space and 8GB RAM.
- Python >= 3.7.
- Node.js. There are various ways to install Node. You can download source code from nodejs.org and compile it. Doing so permits installing Node on your own home directory as a standard user. Or try repositories such as NodeSource.
- clang 3.4 or later.
- Development headers of GTK 3 and libnotify.
On Ubuntu >= 20.04, install the following libraries:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential clang libdbus-1-dev libgtk-3-dev \
libnotify-dev libasound2-dev libcap-dev \
libcups2-dev libxtst-dev \
libxss1 libnss3-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib curl \
gperf bison python3-dbusmock openjdk-8-jre
On Ubuntu < 20.04, install the following libraries:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential clang libdbus-1-dev libgtk-3-dev \
libnotify-dev libgnome-keyring-dev \
libasound2-dev libcap-dev libcups2-dev libxtst-dev \
libxss1 libnss3-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib curl \
gperf bison python-dbusmock openjdk-8-jre
On RHEL / CentOS, install the following libraries:
$ sudo yum install clang dbus-devel gtk3-devel libnotify-devel \
libgnome-keyring-devel xorg-x11-server-utils libcap-devel \
cups-devel libXtst-devel alsa-lib-devel libXrandr-devel \
nss-devel python-dbusmock openjdk-8-jre
On Fedora, install the following libraries:
$ sudo dnf install clang dbus-devel gperf gtk3-devel \
libnotify-devel libgnome-keyring-devel libcap-devel \
cups-devel libXtst-devel alsa-lib-devel libXrandr-devel \
nss-devel python-dbusmock
On Arch Linux / Manjaro, install the following libraries:
$ sudo pacman -Syu base-devel clang libdbus gtk2 libnotify \
libgnome-keyring alsa-lib libcap libcups libxtst \
libxss nss gcc-multilib curl gperf bison \
python2 python-dbusmock jdk8-openjdk
Other distributions may offer similar packages for installation via package managers such as pacman. Or one can compile from source code.
Cross compilation
If you want to build for an arm target you should also install the following
dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-armhf-cross linux-libc-dev-armhf-cross \
g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf
Similarly for arm64, install the following:
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-arm64-cross linux-libc-dev-arm64-cross \
g++-aarch64-linux-gnu
And to cross-compile for arm or targets, you should pass the
target_cpu parameter to gn gen:
$ gn gen out/Testing --args='import(...) target_cpu="arm"'
Building
Troubleshooting
Error While Loading Shared Libraries: libtinfo.so.5
Prebuilt clang will try to link to libtinfo.so.5. Depending on the host
architecture, symlink to appropriate libncurses:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5
Advanced topics
The default building configuration is targeted for major desktop Linux distributions. To build for a specific distribution or device, the following information may help you.
Using system clang instead of downloaded clang binaries
By default Electron is built with prebuilt
clang binaries provided by the
Chromium project. If for some reason you want to build with the clang
installed in your system, you can specify the clang_base_path argument in the
GN args.
For example if you installed clang under /usr/local/bin/clang:
$ gn gen out/Testing --args='import("//electron/build/args/testing.gn") clang_base_path = "/usr/local/bin"'
Using compilers other than clang
Building Electron with compilers other than clang is not supported.