proton-bridge/BUILDS.md

Building ProtonMail Bridge app

Prerequisites

• Go 1.13
• Bash with basic build utils: make, gcc, sed, find, grep, ...
• For Windows it is recommended to use MinGW 64bit shell from MSYS2
• GCC (linux, windows) or Xcode (macOS)
• Windres (windows)

To enable the sending of crash reports using Sentry please set the main.DSNSentry value with the client key of your sentry project before build. Otherwise, the sending of crash reports will be disabled.

Build

• for Windows please unset the MSYSTEM variable

export MSYSTEM=

• in project root run

make build

• The result will be stored in ./cmd/Destop-Bridge/deploy/${GOOS}/
  • for linux, the binary will have the name of the project directory (e.g bridge)
  • for windows, the binary will have the file extension .exe (e.g bridge.exe)
  • for darwin, the application will be created with name of the project directory (e.g bridge.app)

Build with custom Qt installation

Please follow the setup instructions in therecipe/qt wiki Once you have successfully finished qtsetup you should be able compile Bridge using

make qtdeploy

Useful tests, lints and checks

In order to be able to run following commands please install the development dependencies: make install-dev-dependencies

• make test will run all unit tests
• make lint will lint the whole project
• make -C ./tests test will run the integration tests
• make run will build Bridge without a GUI and start it in CLI mode