Set Up a Thunderbird Build Environment on Mac

Have a Macbook and want to build Thunderbird? Here is how to setup that development environment in just a few commands! This is useful if you are interesting in fixing bugs, trying out patches, or making any local changes to Thunderbird. Tutorial commands: Install homebrew and tools needed to build Thunderbird $ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" $ brew install python pipx mercurial $ pipx install MozPhab Checkout the source code $ mkdir tb-build && cd tb-build $ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central source/ $ cd source/ $ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central comm/ Run the bootstrap command from the source directory. Choose 2 (to build Firefox for Desktop). Choose all of the default options. $ ./mach bootstrap Make sure your ~/.zshrc has the following line: export PATH="$PATH:/Users/USERNAME/.local/bin" Create your mozconfig file in the source directory with the following info $ vim mozconfig ac_add_