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Build Floorp on Windows

📦 Requirements

• Machine Specifications:

  • Memory: 4GB RAM minimum, 8GB+ recommended.

  • Disk Space: At least 40GB of free disk space.

  • Operating System: Windows 10 or later. You shold update to the latest version of Windows.

• Install the following software:

  • Mozilla Build Shell Mozilla Build Shell is a set of tools that includes the MinGW-w64 toolchain. It is used to build Floorp on Windows. This provides a Linux-like environment on Windows.

  • git

📦 Build Floorp

1. Open Mozilla Build Shell.

   C:\mozilla-build\start-shell.bat

2. Clone the Floorp repository.

   If you want to contribute to Floorp, Please read Getting Started. This page is helpful for you.

   git clone https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp.git
   git submodule update --init --recursive

3. Run the following command to install the dependencies. First of building Floorp, you need select some choices. Please select the following choices. [1] Build Floorp for Desktop.

   [n] Do not setup Mercurial

   [y] Install Rust

   [n] Do not send telemetry data

   [n] Do not send patch to Mozilla

   cd Floorp
   ./mach bootstrap

4. Run the following command to build Floorp.

   echo 'ac_add_options --with-branding=browser/branding/official' >> mozconfig
   ./mach build

5. Run the following command to run Floorp.

   ./mach run

Congratulations! You have successfully built Floorp on Windows!

Extra

• The time is coming! Hack Floorp!

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