Chromium source code compiling

Question

I'm trying to compile the chromium source code Amazon Linux AMI release 2014.09. I'm getting the following error.

../../chromium/src/third_party/protobuf/src/google/protobuf/generated_message_util.h:41:10: fatal error: 'string' file not found
#include <string>

Answer 1

Chromium requirements section says:

You should be able to build Chromium on any reasonably modern Linux distribution, but there are a lot of distributions and we sometimes break things on one or another. Internally, our development platform has been a variant of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr); we expect you will have the most luck on this platform, although directions for other popular platforms are included below.

I was not able to compile Chromium on OpenSuSE without lots of troubles, but as in your case, it worked fine on Ubuntu for me.