Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM near as Chromium successfully compiled

When Microsoft’s browser team threw their lot in with Google’s Chromium web engine one of the expected outcomes was the development of a native version of Google Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM.

It seems that day is much closer, as an independent developer has managed to compile a working version of the Chromium browser for Windows 10 on ARM.

The feat was achieved by Jeremy Sinclair, who used a recent commit from 4/2 for win32-arm64-rel that was accepted.

Trying a commit from 4/2 that got a green light in the build for win32-arm64-rel. Let's see if this builds my Chromium properly. Next tweet in regards to this build process will either be a gif or lots of cursing emojis. pic.twitter.com/JMsQdV4H8t

— Jeremy Sinclair #?NET (@sinclairinat0r) April 7, 2019

Needless to say, the outcome was a working build as seen in his tweets below:

BEHOLD! Successful Chromium build completed and is running on Windows ARM64 o/! It was SUPER fast opening, also. pic.twitter.com/zMzECWkcNd

— Jeremy Sinclair #?NET (@sinclairinat0r) April 7, 2019

Emoji Window bugg in tha housseee @itsmichaelwest @WithinRafael #EmojiWindowDragChallenge pic.twitter.com/Fw4BUnYxdr

— Jeremy Sinclair #?NET (@sinclairinat0r) April 7, 2019

Ironically the move also, in a strange way, brings Chrome to Windows Mobile, if you excuse the multiple layers of hacks along the way:

A windows phone running chrome natively, rare endangered species in an unnatural habitat. Huge thanks to @sinclairinator for all the work, he’s the one that built the entire thing for arm64, feel free to follow him, this is awesome ?? pic.twitter.com/LuZ5YMmQ4X

— Gustave Monce ? (@gus33000) April 7, 2019

While the feat does not mean you can download a native (and therefore faster and lighter) version of Google Chrome for your Windows 10 on ARM PC yet, it does mean Google could potentially deliver such a product in the very near future. The real question of course if there is enough Windows 10 on ARM users to justify the effort.