CEF C API (cefcapi)

A simple example on how to use the C API in Chromium Embedded Framework created by Czarek Tomczak. Example creates a window, embeds a browser inside that window and loads Google website. Shows how to implement dummy reference counting and CEF structures with callbacks to implement CEF handlers like cef_app_t, cef_client_t and cef_life_span_handler_t. To understand and implement real reference counting see the UsingTheCAPI wiki page in upstream CEF project.

Table of contents:

• Examples
• Compatibility
• Getting started
• Support development
• Updating CEF version

Examples

• Windows: see main_win.c
• Linux: see main_linux.c
• Mac: not available yet (Issue #15)

Compatibility

Tested configurations:

• Windows:
  • Binary: cef_binary_3.3202.1692.g18a939d_windows32.tar.bz2
  • Compilers: mingw-gcc 5.3.0 and TDM-gcc 5.1.0 on Windows 7 64-bit
• Linux:
  • Binary: cef_binary_3.3202.1692.g18a939d_linux64.tar.bz2
  • Compiler: Linux: gcc 4.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
  • Compiler: gcc 6.3.0 on Debian 9.2 (stretch) 64-bit

Getting started

1. Download "Standard Distribution" binaries from Spotify Automated Builds for the supported CEF version mentioned in the Compatibility section above: http://opensource.spotify.com/cefbuilds/index.html
2. Create cefcapi/Release/ directory
3. Copy cef_binary*/Release/* to cefcapi/Release/
4. Copy cef_binary*/Resources/* to cefcapi/Release/
5. On Linux run "make gtk2" (GTK+ 2 example) or "make gtk3" (GTK+ 3 example) in the root directory. Note that you may need to build CEF with "use_gtk3=true" to link it with GTK+ 3.
6. On Windows run the "build.bat" script in the root directory

Support development

If you would like to support general CEF C API development efforts by making a donation please click the Paypal Donate button:

Updating CEF version

If you download a CEF version newer than 3.3202.1692 then apart from copying binaries to cefcapi/Release/ directory you will also have to update the include/ directory with CEF header files.

In the include/ directory you can find two files: "cef_version_win.h" and "cef_version_linux.h" - these header files were copied from CEF binary distributions for appropriate platforms and their original file names were "cef_version.h".