[tbb-dev] Building Tor Browser (Firefox)

[Rishabh Raj]

Hello Georg,

I was finally able to build it, but here is what I had to do. |./mach
configure| will not run unless I do not patch the
"build/moz.configure/init.configure" file using this website
<https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/36f4ba2fb6f5>. After this,
I figured out that |./mach build| was giving me errors because my rust
version was 1.34. I downgraded it to 1.29 and it worked (I have no clue as
to why this is required).

But now that it has built, I did |./mach stage-package| and then copied the
contents of the folder "obj-*/dist/firefox/" to the "Browser/" folder of
tor-browser-linux64-8.5_en-US which I downloaded from Tor Browser's
website. But now, when I run |./start-tor-browser.desktop|, it launches
Firefox browser with my current profile. I thought that it would launch Tor
Browser, but it didn't. Is this how it's supposed to work? I feel that I am
close and I might be missing something here. I would be really grateful if
you could tell me what I am missing here.

For the record, I would be modifying Firefox's webgl code (as in the code
which handles the various animation programs which using webgl)

Warm Regards,
Rishabh Raj

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 7:39 AM Georg Koppen <gk at torproject.org> wrote:

> Rishabh Raj:
> > Hello,
> > I had previously sent a similar mail on tbb-community-team. But Georg
> > advised me to send it on tbb-dev. So here I am.
> >
> > I am actually working on modifying some parts of Tor Browser for my
> project
> > and for that I will need to build Tor Browser's source code. I was
> > following this website
> > <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Hacking>
> > (Georg has updated it now) and after cloning tor-browser-build repo, I
> did
> > a |make nightly-linux-x86_64|, which took almost half a day to complete
> on
> > my Ubuntu 18.04 system. But, since I would be making some changes to the
> > browser (mostly Firefox code), I need to alter code and build again and
> > again.
> >
> > In the above website, there is an option for '*Building Just Firefox*'
> and
> > I am trying that. Coming to the updated wiki, I think there might still
> be
> > some issues there. Allow me to make myself clearer:
> >
> > (1)
> > Installation of packages. Some of them may be deprecated. For example I
> get
> > this after running the command :
> > |||
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Package hardening-wrapper is not available, but is referred to by another
> > package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> >
> > E: Package 'hardening-wrapper' has no installation candidate
> > E: Unable to locate package libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
> > E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev'
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev'
> > |||
> >
> > (2)
> > Assuming this is not the issue, I proceeded and made the new file
> > |.mozconfig| and copied the given two lines into it, cloned and moved the
> > tor-launcher as well and ran the |./mach configure --with-tor-...|
> command,
> > which gives:
>
> What happens if you try my last advice:
>
> """
> No need for a new .mozconfig. If you check out the latest tor-browser
> branch (tor-browser-60.7.0esr-9.0-1) there is already a .mozconfig file
> that works for Linux.
>
> Then just using the mach commands on the wiki should work (I tested that
> at least the configure command worked on my system) provided you have
> the right packages installed.
> """
> ?
>
> Georg
>
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