Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Minimal Binary Distribution for Linux
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Date: October 18, 2025
CEF Version: 141.0.7+ga5714cc+chromium-141.0.7390.108
CEF URL: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef.git
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Chromium Version: 141.0.7390.108
Chromium URL: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git
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This distribution contains the minimal components necessary to build and
distribute an application using CEF on the Linux platform. Please see
the LICENSING section of this document for licensing terms and conditions.
CONTENTS
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bazel Contains Bazel configuration files shared by all targets.
cmake Contains CMake configuration files shared by all targets.
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.so and other components required to run the release
version of CEF-based applications. By default these files should be
placed in the same directory as the executable.
Resources Contains resources required by libcef.so. By default these files
should be placed in the same directory as libcef.so.
USAGE
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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.
Please visit the CEF Website for additional usage information.
https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/
REDISTRIBUTION
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This binary distribution contains the below components.
Required components:
The following components are required. CEF will not function without them.
* CEF core library.
* libcef.so
* 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 value of environment
variables which are read with the following precedence order: LANGUAGE,
LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES and LANG. 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.
* ANGLE support.
* libEGL.so
* libGLESv2.so
Support for rendering of HTML5 content like 2D canvas, 3D CSS and WebGL.
Without these files the aforementioned capabilities may fail.
* SwANGLE support.
* libvk_swiftshader.so
* libvulkan.so.1
* vk_swiftshader_icd.json
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
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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.
