Chromium without SSE2

[geek]

Hello.

I have FreeBSD 10 on an old computer that lacks the SSE2 instruction set. I tried to compile the www/chromium port, but the compilation failed as an intermediate program in the build step executed an illegal instruction. The resulting chromium binary would probably also have contained SSE2 opcodes.

How could chromium be compiled without SSE2? Or, is there a pre-built package? Arch Linux wiki explains something about chromium for old PCs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ch ... ating_SSE2. I've tried the chromium-no-sse2 patch, but haven't had any success yet.

 

[talsamon]

I have not tested it, but try putting SSE_FLAG="-mno-sse2" in the Makefile.

 

[cpm@]

Chromium 35 has stopped supporting non-SSE2 Linux systems [1], so this means that trying to build chromium without SSE2 support will fail. Both Debian and Arch Linux have non-SSE2 precompiled packages, so I will take a look to see if we can do something about. Probably this chromium-no-sse2-patch tweaked is all that we need

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu ... 348761#c15