# kivy-berkelium

**Repository Path**: mirrors_kivy/kivy-berkelium

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: kivy-berkelium
- **Description**: Berkelium extension for Kivy - DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/kivy-garden/garden.cefpython instead.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-02

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

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


How to test
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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.

#. sudo apt-get install binutils-gold chrpath git-core cython python-dev
#. git clone git://github.com/sirikata/berkelium
#. cd berkelium
#. git checkout chromium11
#. util/build-chromium.sh --deps --force
#. cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
#. git submodule update --init --recursive
#. make
#. git clone git://github.com/kivy/kivy-berkelium
#. cd kivy-berkelium
#. make
#. 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