Build from source

[hfiguiere]

Build from source so that it can be used on aarch64 as well.

[dbonner]

I can build Betterbird to be an aarch64 package. It is fairly portable, as it will run from wherever the package is extracted and you can use 'betterbird -p' to specify a location for the profile. However I don't know how you can make it in to a flatpak. All the best, Daniel

[Betterbird]

We've updated the build instructions to be best of our knowledge at https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/README.md Basically, it's about setting up the environment of the build machine and then running https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/build/build.sh with the version number, 102 in this case.

We don't know whether that suits your needs. The ARM64 build is more tricky since Mozilla's ./mach bootstrap doesn't install all that is necessary. Altogether building this stuff is a total pain since you need to pull 1.5GB worth of Mozilla source code and have a beefy machine with enough RAM to compile. It's best set up the build machine only once for each major version, that avoids having to pull the Mozilla repos every time.

My 2 cents worth.

[dbonner]

My most recent build instructions for building aarch64 on an aarch64 Debian Bullseye instance are as follows. I have tried cross-compiling but failed. So I build on an aarch64 Amazon EC2 instance: debian-11-arm64-20220816-1109-34ede06f-9465-483a-a16a-a2e2c4bf37bb ami-06a42efd7beb3d694 Debian 11 (20220816-1109)

sudo apt update sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Choose: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 Then: en_US.UTF-8 sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Set to Berlin sudo apt upgrade

INSTALL APT PACKAGES:

sudo apt install mlocate git mercurial nano micro watchman python3-pywatchman python3 \
  python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel default-jre default-jdk wget curl gcc g++ \
  binutils build-essential cmake ninja-build fonts-powerline powerline nasm shc \
  libc6 libc6-dev libgcc-10-dev libstdc++-10-dev libstdc++6 linux-libc-dev libstdc++6 libstdc++-10-dev \
  libx11-dev libxext-dev libxt-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libx11-xcb-dev \
  libbsd-dev libgtk-3-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev

SETUP GITHUB:

git config --global user.name "XXXXXX"
git config --global user.email "XXXXXXXXXXX"
git config --global pull.rebase false

SETUP HG: hg config --edit So it reads:

[ui]
username = XXXXXXXXX <email_address>

[extensions]
mq =

[fsmonitor]
mode = on

INSTALL LLVM 14.0.6 USING LLVM APT REPO wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - Add to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://apt.llvm.org/bullseye/ llvm-toolchain-bullseye-14 main sudo apt update

INSTALL LLVM-14 PACKAGES: sudo apt install \ clang-14-doc=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ ` clang-14-examples=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ clang-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ clang-format-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ clang-tidy-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ clang-tools-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ clangd-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libc++-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libc++1-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libc++abi-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libc++abi1-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclang-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclang-common-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclang-cpp14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclang-cpp14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclang1-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclc-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libclc-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libfuzzer-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ liblld-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ liblld-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ liblldb-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ liblldb-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libllvm-14-ocaml-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libllvm14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libmlir-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libmlir-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libomp-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libomp-14-doc=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libomp5-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libunwind-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ libunwind-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ lld-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ lldb-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14-dev=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14-doc=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14-examples=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14-linker-tools=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14-runtime=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14-tools=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ llvm-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ mlir-14-tools=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ python3-clang-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152 \ python3-lldb-14=1:14.0.6~++20220622053050+f28c006a5895-1~exp1~20220622173135.152

ADD TO .bashrc: export PATH="/usr/lib/llvm-14/bin:$PATH"

INSTALL RUSTUP, RUSTC, CARGO:

wget https://sh.rustup.rs
mv index.html rustup-init.sh
chmod +x rustup-init.sh
./rustup-init.sh -y --default-toolchain 1.60.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --default-host aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --component rustfmt
. ~/.bashrc

INSTALL CBINDGEN AND BINDGEN:

cargo install cbindgen --version 0.23.0
cargo install bindgen

INSTALL NVM INSTALL SCRIPT:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash
. ~/.bashrc

INSTALL NODE: Current version is 16.17.0

nvm install 16.17.0
nvm use 16.17.0
nvm alias default 16.17.0

INSTALL NPM: npm install --location=global npm@latest

CLONE THE THUNDERBIRD-PATCHES GITHUB REPO:

cd ~
mkdir build-102
cd ~/build-102
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches.git
cp -p thunderbird-patches/build/build.sh .

BUILD Betterbird-102: ./build.sh 102

[Betterbird]

Wow, much easier on plain Linux or Mac where ./mach bootstrap does all that.

[dbonner]

I just updated my post (with aarch64 build instructions) to have all commands and code formatted as such. It's now easier to read.

[Betterbird]

Now at https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/build/build-env-aarch64.MD

[mfschumann]

Thanks for all the input on aarch64 building so far. I will look into that once I migrated the x86_64 flatpak from the pre-built binary to being built from source.

[mfschumann]

Needs #10

[mfschumann]

Needs #4

[mfschumann]

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