Apply this patch to the Google Chrome source tree so you can compile it with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition without errors. See http://bit.ly/30slOj for more details.

chrome_gyp_vcpp_express.patch

Index: chrome/chrome.gyp
===================================================================
--- chrome/chrome.gyp	(revision 32052)
+++ chrome/chrome.gyp	(working copy)
@@ -2781,6 +2781,11 @@
             'browser/views/tabs/tab_overview_types.cc',
             'browser/views/tabs/tab_overview_types.h',
           ],
+          'msvs_settings': {
+            'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+              'WarnAsError': 'false',
+            },
+          },
         }, {  # 'OS!="win"
           'sources/': [
             # Exclude all of hang_monitor.
@@ -3901,6 +3906,9 @@
             '<(SHARED_INTERMEDIATE_DIR)/chrome',
           ],
           'msvs_settings': {
+            'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+              'WarnAsError': 'false',
+            },
             'VCLinkerTool': {
               'DelayLoadDLLs': [
                 'dbghelp.dll',
@@ -4978,6 +4986,11 @@
               },
             },
           },
+          'msvs_settings': {
+            'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+              'WarnAsError': 'false',
+            },
+          },
         }, { # else: OS != "win"
           'sources!': [
             'browser/bookmarks/bookmark_codec_unittest.cc',
@@ -5444,6 +5457,15 @@
               '-lsecur32.lib',
             ],
           },
+          'configurations': {
+            'Debug': {
+              'msvs_settings': {
+                'VCLinkerTool': {
+                  'LinkIncremental': '<(msvs_large_module_debug_link_mode)',
+                },
+              },
+            },
+          },          
         }, { # else: OS != "win"
           'sources!': [
             'browser/sync/util/data_encryption_unittest.cc',
@@ -6808,6 +6830,11 @@
               'dependencies': [
                 '../third_party/tcmalloc/tcmalloc.gyp:tcmalloc',
               ],
+              'msvs_settings': {
+                'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+                  'WarnAsError': 'false',
+                },
+              },
             },],
           ],
         },
@@ -6940,6 +6967,11 @@
               'dependencies': [
                 '../third_party/tcmalloc/tcmalloc.gyp:tcmalloc',
               ],
+              'msvs_settings': {
+                'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+                  'WarnAsError': 'false',
+                },
+              },
             },],
           ],
         },
Index: views/views.gyp
===================================================================
--- views/views.gyp	(revision 32052)
+++ views/views.gyp	(working copy)
@@ -340,6 +340,11 @@
             # TODO(beng): move wtl to src/third_party
             '../chrome/third_party/wtl/include',
           ],
+          'msvs_settings': {
+            'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+              'WarnAsError': 'false',
+            },
+          },
         }],
       ],
     },