Set Up a Thunderbird Build Environment in Linux

Are you a Linux user who wants to build Thunderbird? Here's a tutorial on how to setup a development environment in Ubuntu, in just a few commands! This is helpful if you're interested in fixing bugs, trying out patches, or making any local changes to Thunderbird. Tutorial Commands: Setup tools needed to build Thunderbird $ sudo apt install python3-pip mercurial 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 Create your mozconfig file in the source directory with the following info $ vim mozconfig ac_add_options --enable-project=comm/mail Build Thunderbird! $ ./mach build Run what you just built! $ ./mach run