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Building Floorp on Windows

📦 Requirements

Machine Specifications

  • Memory: Minimum 4GB RAM, 8GB+ recommended.
  • Disk Space: At least 40GB of free disk space.
  • Operating System: Windows 10 or later. You should update to the latest version of Windows.

Required Tools

  • 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
    git is a version control system. It is used to download the Floorp & Firefox source code.

📦 Build Floorp

  1. Open Mozilla Build Shell.

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

  2. Clone the Floorp repository.

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

  3. Run the following command to install the dependencies. Before building Floorp, you need to select a build option. Please choose the following:

    [1] Build Floorp for Desktop.

    The other choices are not supported yet. The next selection depends on your choice.

    Terminal window
    cd Floorp
    ./mach bootstrap

  4. Run the following command to build Floorp.

    Terminal window
    // Create mozconfig
    echo 'ac_add_options --with-branding=browser/branding/official' >> mozconfig
    echo 'ac_add_options --with-app-basename=Floorp' >> mozconfig
    echo 'ac_add_options --with-app-name=floorp' >> mozconfig
    echo "ac_add_options --enable-bootstrap" >> mozconfig
    

    // build Floorp
    ./mach configure
    ./mach build

  5. Run the following command to run Floorp.

    Terminal window
    ./mach run

Congratulations! You have successfully built Floorp!