isabella232 / kivy-berkelium

Berkelium extension for Kivy - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/kivy-garden/garden.cefpython instead.

Berkelium extension for Kivy

Berkelium is a BSD licensed library for offscreen rendering via Chromium project. Check http://berkelium.org/ for more information about it. We are using a patched version of Berkelium, available at https://github.com/tito/berkelium (branch chromium8-alternate-bin)

Notes

• This extension require Kivy 1.0.7 minimum !
• This extension is under development. It's currently working and tested only for Linux 64 bits.
• MacOSX can't be supported at the moment, since Kivy require Python 64bits, and Chromium can't be built under 64bits on MacOSX.

How to install

1. Download .kex https://github.com/kivy/kivy-berkelium/archives/master
2. Copy the .kex to ~/.kivy/extensions

How to test

1. Download https://github.com/kivy/kivy-berkelium/raw/master/demo/main.py
2. Run with "python main.py"

How to recompile

Note

This method have been tested only on Linux (Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04) 64bits.

1. sudo apt-get install binutils-gold chrpath git-core cython python-dev
2. git clone git://github.com/sirikata/berkelium
3. cd berkelium
4. git checkout chromium11
5. util/build-chromium.sh --deps --force
6. cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
7. git submodule update --init --recursive
8. make
9. git clone git://github.com/kivy/kivy-berkelium
10. cd kivy-berkelium
11. make
12. mv dist/berkelium-1.3.linux-x86_64.zip dist/berkelium-1.3.linux-x86_64.kex

And you can copy the berkelium-1.3.linux-x86_64.kex into your ~/.kivy/extensions