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## Building LibreWolf from source:
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First, let's **[download the latest tarball](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/librewolf-__VERSION__-__RELEASE__.source.tar.gz?job=build-job)**. This tarball is the latest produced by the CI.
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To download the latest from a script, use wget/curl like this:
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```
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wget -O librewolf-__VERSION__-__RELEASE__.source.tar.gz https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/librewolf-__VERSION__-__RELEASE__.source.tar.gz?job=build-job
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curl -L -o librewolf-__VERSION__-__RELEASE__.source.tar.gz https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/librewolf-__VERSION__-__RELEASE__.source.tar.gz?job=build-job
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```
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Next, we create ourselves a build folder and extract the tarball.
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```
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mkdir build
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cd build
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tar xf ../librewolf-__VERSION__-__RELEASE__.source.tar.gz
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```
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Next step, if you have not done so already, you must create the build environment:
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```
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librewolf-__VERSION__/lw/mozfetch.sh
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```
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It takes about an hour for me to complete, but it needs to be done only once. This step might fail and cause problems. Hack a bit, and if that fails you can ask on our [Gitter](https://gitter.im/librewolf-community/librewolf)/[Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#librewolf:matrix.org) channels.
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Now we're ready to actually build LibreWolf:
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```
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cd librewolf-__VERSION__
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./mach build
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```
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Also takes me an hour. Then, we can run it:
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```
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./mach run
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```
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Or make a package:
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```
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./mach package
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```
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## [dev info] How to use this repo instead of [Common](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common):
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Since the dawn of time, we have used **Common** to get _patches_, _source_files_, including _source_files/{branding}_
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This source repo supports all that, because it uses these same things to produce the tarball. As far as I can tell, the mapping from Common to Source would be:
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* _[patches](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common/-/tree/master/patches)_ -> _[patches](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/tree/main/patches)_
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* _[source\_files](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common/-/tree/master/source_files)/search-config.json_ -> _[assets](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/tree/main/assets)/search-config.json_
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* _source\_files/browser/[branding](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common/-/tree/master/source_files/browser/branding)/librewolf_ -> _themes/browser/[branding](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/tree/main/themes/browser/branding)/librewolf_
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With this mapping, I hope that other builders that can't use our tarball (afterMozilla project, weird distro's), still use the same source/patches as the builders that do use it.
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### Another feature
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The file [assets/patches.txt](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/blob/main/assets/patches.txt) defines what patches go in. These are not the only patches a builder will use, weird distro's etc, will use additional patches. those patches can live in the repo of that distro, or in a subfolder here. I hope this gives everybody the freedom to build anyway they please, like in Common, but with the added benefit that we produce a source tarball.
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## [dev info] Building the LibreWolf source tarball:
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Luckly, you don't need the build environment for this. If you don't have write access, just:
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git clone https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source.git
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cd source
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make all
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```
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If you **do** have write access, we're first gonna check for a newer version of Firefox:
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git clone git@gitlab.com:librewolf-community/browser/source.git
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cd source
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make check
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```
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If there is a new version, it's a good time to git commit and trigger a CI build job.
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git commit -am v$(cat version)-$(cat release) && git push
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```
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To build the source archive:
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```
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make all
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```
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If you have a working build environment, you can build librewolf with:
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make librewolf
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```
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This extracts the source, and then tries to `./mach build && ./mach package`.
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