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Building
Marionette is built in to Firefox and ships in the official Firefox binary. As Marionette is written in [XPCOM] flavoured JavaScript, you may choose to rely on so called artifact builds, which will download pre-compiled Firefox blobs to your computer. This means you don’t have to compile Firefox locally, but does come at the cost of having a good internet connection. To enable artifact builds you may choose ‘Firefox for Desktop Artifact Mode’ when bootstrapping.
Once you have a clone of mozilla-unified, you can set up your development environment by running this command and following the on-screen instructions:
% ./mach bootstrap
To perform a regular build, simply do:
% ./mach build
You can clean out the objdir using this command:
% ./mach clobber
Occasionally a clean build will be required after you fetch the latest changes from mozilla-central. You will find that the the build will error when this is the case. To automatically do clean builds when this happens you may optionally add this line to the mozconfig file in your top source directory:
mk_add_options AUTOCLOBBER=1
If you compile Firefox frequently you will also want to enable ccache and sccache if you develop on a macOS or Linux system:
mk_add_options 'export RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache'
mk_add_options 'export CCACHE_CPP2=yes'
ac_add_options --with-ccache