Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Standard Binary Distribution for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: April 03, 2025 CEF Version: 135.0.17+gcbc1c5b+chromium-135.0.7049.52 CEF URL: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef.git @cbc1c5b766aec457ec3a565ea4c738bfc6066564 Chromium Version: 135.0.7049.52 Chromium URL: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git @9ba7e609d28c509a8ce9265c2247065d8d251173 This distribution contains all components necessary to build and distribute an application using CEF on the Windows platform. Please see the LICENSING section of this document for licensing terms and conditions. CONTENTS -------- bazel Contains Bazel configuration files shared by all targets. cmake Contains CMake configuration files shared by all targets. Debug Contains libcef.dll, libcef.lib and other components required to build and run the debug version of CEF-based applications. By default these files should be placed in the same directory as the executable and will be copied there as part of the build process. include Contains all required CEF header files. libcef_dll Contains the source code for the libcef_dll_wrapper static library that all applications using the CEF C++ API must link against. Release Contains libcef.dll, libcef.lib and other components required to build and run the release version of CEF-based applications. By default these files should be placed in the same directory as the executable and will be copied there as part of the build process. Resources Contains resources required by libcef.dll. By default these files should be placed in the same directory as libcef.dll and will be copied there as part of the build process. tests/ Directory of tests that demonstrate CEF usage. cefclient Contains the cefclient sample application configured to build using the files in this distribution. This application demonstrates a wide range of CEF functionalities. cefsimple Contains the cefsimple sample application configured to build using the files in this distribution. This application demonstrates the minimal functionality required to create a browser window. ceftests Contains unit tests that exercise the CEF APIs. gtest Contains the Google C++ Testing Framework used by the ceftests target. shared Contains source code shared by the cefclient and ceftests targets. USAGE ----- Building using CMake: CMake can be used to generate project files in many different formats. See usage instructions at the top of the CMakeLists.txt file. Building using Bazel: Bazel can be used to build CEF-based applications. CEF support for Bazel is considered experimental. For current development status see https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/3757. To build the bundled cefclient sample application using Bazel: 1. Install Bazelisk [https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/blob/master/README.md] 2. Build using Bazel: $ bazel build //tests/cefclient 3. Run using Bazel: $ bazel run //tests/cefclient/win:cefclient.exe Other sample applications (cefsimple, ceftests) can be built in the same way. Additional notes: - To generate a Debug build add `-c dbg` (both `build` and `run` command-line). - To pass arguments using the `run` command add `-- [...]` at the end. - Windows x86 and ARM64 builds using Bazel may be broken, see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/22164. Please visit the CEF Website for additional usage information. https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/ REDISTRIBUTION -------------- This binary distribution contains the below components. Required components: The following components are required. CEF will not function without them. * CEF core library. * libcef.dll * Crash reporting library. * chrome_elf.dll * Unicode support data. * icudtl.dat * V8 snapshot data. * v8_context_snapshot.bin Optional components: The following components are optional. If they are missing CEF will continue to run but any related functionality may become broken or disabled. * Localized resources. Locale file loading can be disabled completely using CefSettings.pack_loading_disabled. The locales directory path can be customized using CefSettings.locales_dir_path. * locales/ Directory containing localized resources used by CEF, Chromium and Blink. A .pak file is loaded from this directory based on the CefSettings.locale value. Only configured locales need to be distributed. If no locale is configured the default locale of "en-US" will be used. Without these files arbitrary Web components may display incorrectly. * Other resources. Pack file loading can be disabled completely using CefSettings.pack_loading_disabled. The resources directory path can be customized using CefSettings.resources_dir_path. * chrome_100_percent.pak * chrome_200_percent.pak * resources.pak These files contain non-localized resources used by CEF, Chromium and Blink. Without these files arbitrary Web components may display incorrectly. * Direct3D support. * d3dcompiler_47.dll Support for GPU accelerated rendering of HTML5 content like 2D canvas, 3D CSS and WebGL. Without this file the aforementioned capabilities may fail when GPU acceleration is enabled (default in most cases). Use of this bundled version is recommended instead of relying on the possibly old and untested system installed version. * DirectX compiler support (x64 only). * dxil.dll * dxcompiler.dll Support for DirectX rendering of WebGPU. Without these files the aforementioned capabilities may fail. * ANGLE support. * libEGL.dll * libGLESv2.dll Support for rendering of HTML5 content like 2D canvas, 3D CSS and WebGL. Without these files the aforementioned capabilities may fail. * SwANGLE support. * vk_swiftshader.dll * vk_swiftshader_icd.json * vulkan-1.dll Support for software rendering of HTML5 content like 2D canvas, 3D CSS and WebGL using SwiftShader's Vulkan library as ANGLE's Vulkan backend. Without these files the aforementioned capabilities may fail when GPU acceleration is disabled or unavailable. LICENSING --------- The CEF project is BSD licensed. Please read the LICENSE.txt file included with this binary distribution for licensing terms and conditions. Other software included in this distribution is provided under other licenses. Please see the CREDITS.html file or visit "about:credits" in a CEF-based application for complete Chromium and third-party licensing information.