cef-rs

Use CEF in Rust.

Supported Targets

Target	Linux	macOS	Windows
x86_64	✅	✅	✅
ARM64	✅	✅	✅

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

macOS

• Download cef prebuilts with update-bindings, it should print out the extracted CEF_PATH on success.

cargo run -p update-bindings --bindgen --download

• Build and run the cefsimple application

export CEF_PATH=<path>

./cef/examples/cefsimple/bundle_script.rs

open target/debug/examples/cefsimple.app

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.