LibreWolf build instructions

First, let's download the latest tarball. This tarball is the latest produced by the CI.

tar xf <tarball>
cd <folder>
make bootstrap build package run

How to make a patch:

The easiest way to make patches is to go to the LibreWolf source folder:

cd librewolf-$(cat version)
git init
git add <path_to_file_you_changed>
git commit -am initial-commit
git diff > ../mypatch.patch

We have Gitter / Matrix rooms, and on the website we have links to the various issue trackers.

Building LibreWolf with git:

1. Clone the git repository via https:

git clone --recursive https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source.git

or Git:

git clone --recursive git@gitlab.com:librewolf-community/browser/source.git

cd into it, build the LibreWolf tarball, bootstrap the buld environment, and finally, perform the build:

cd source
make all
make bootstrap
make build

After that, you can either build a tarball from it, or run it:

make package
make run

How to create a patch for problems in mozilla's bugzilla.

Well, first of all:

• Create an account.
• Handy link: Bugs Filed Today.
• The essential: Firefox Source Tree Documentation.

Now that you have a patch, that's not enough to upload to Mozilla. See, Mozilla only accepts patches against Nightly. So here is how to get that:

hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified
cd mozilla-unified
hg update
MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=$HOME/.mozbuild ./mach --no-interactive bootstrap --application-choice=browser
./mach build
./mach run

Now you can apply your patch to Nightly:

patch -p1 -i ../mypatch.patch

Now you let Mercurial create the patch:

hg diff > ../my-nightly-patch.patch

And it can be uploaded to BugZilla.