On the NVIDIA proprietary driver the app booted, logged "miniSCP started", reported no error — and painted a completely black window, with stderr showing "Failed to create GBM buffer of size WxH: Invalid argument" and an X11 GLXBadWindow. WebKitGTK's DMABUF renderer cannot allocate buffers there; WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 is the upstream workaround. Pre-existing on Linux, unrelated to the context-menu change — it just had never been looked at because nothing on Linux had been run before. The app CANNOT apply this to itself. WebKit reads the variable when it forks its web process, and Bun's `process.env` writes do not propagate to child processes (verified: a spawned child sees it unset), so setting it in src/bun/index.ts is inert even from a module imported before `electrobun/bun`. It has to be in the environment before the app process starts, which means every launch path must inject it: - scripts/linux-gpu.ts — shared `launchEnv()` helper, gated on /proc/driver/nvidia so Intel/AMD keep hardware compositing, and never overriding an explicit value from the user's environment. - scripts/dev.ts — uses it for `bun run dev`. - scripts/start.ts (new) — `bun run start` previously called `bunx electrobun dev` straight from package.json, where no env could be set; it now goes through a script like dev does. - scripts/release.ts — writes a `miniSCP.sh` wrapper beside bin/launcher in the Linux tarball, since a packaged app goes through none of the above. Documented in gotchas.md (including that a "does it boot?" log check does NOT catch this — the log looks healthy) and platform-notes.md, with the smoke test updated to require that the UI actually renders. Verified: backend `tsc --noEmit` clean, `bun run build:ui` clean, and `bun run start` now boots with zero GBM/GLX errors. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Build & release
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## Versioning — "Build n"
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Sublime-style: the version IS the commit count. `scripts/gen-version.ts` runs
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`git rev-list --count HEAD` + `git rev-parse --short HEAD` and writes the
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**gitignored** `src/shared/version.gen.ts` (`BUILD = {number, commit, date,
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electrobun}`). It is regenerated by `postinstall` and at the start of every
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`dev`/`build`/`start`/`release` script; committing it would bump the count it
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records, hence gitignored. Fresh checkouts fail `tsc` until `bun install` has
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run once (postinstall creates the file). `BRANDING.version` stays
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semver-shaped (`0.1.<n>`) for electrobun's config/updater; `BRANDING.buildLabel`
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("Build n") is what humans see (About box, options popover).
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## Dev loop
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- `bun run dev` — gen-version → scripts/dev.ts: starts `ng serve` (HMR) and
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`electrobun dev --watch`, with `DEV_SERVER_URL` pointing the webviews at the
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dev server (only honored on the dev channel and only if the server answers).
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- `bun run build` — gen-version → Angular build → `electrobun build`
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(**dev channel** — fine for boot checks, NOT a release).
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- `scripts/node-version-shim.ts` (preloaded via `bunfig.toml`, root AND ui/)
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fakes a Node version the Angular CLI accepts under Bun. Both preloads are
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load-bearing.
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## Release builds
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`bun scripts/release.ts [--target mac-arm64|mac-x64|win-x64|linux-x64]`
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(default: host).
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Steps: gen-version → gen-icons → Angular build → `electrobun build
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--env=stable` → copy/rename artifacts into
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`release/<target>/miniSCP-Build<n>-<target>.*`.
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Facts the script encodes:
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- **`--env=stable` is mandatory for releases** — the CLI defaults to the dev
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channel (different app name `miniSCP-dev`, no distributable artifacts).
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- **No OS cross-compile.** The CLI builds for its host (its `targets` config
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field is unread in 1.18.1); packaging needs host tools (codesign/hdiutil on
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macOS, rcedit/PowerShell on Windows). Hence one script run per artifact, on
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the matching machine; `win-x64` on a non-Windows host and `linux-x64` on a
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non-Linux host both error out.
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- **mac-x64 from the arm64 Mac (Rosetta)**: the script downloads electrobun's
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x64 CLI binary once (`electrobun-cli-darwin-x64.tar.gz` from the GitHub
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release matching the installed version, cached at
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`~/.cache/miniscp/electrobun-cli-x64-<ver>/`) and runs it directly —
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Rosetta translates it, the CLI sees `process.arch === "x64"`, downloads the
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`dist-macos-x64` core into the electrobun package dir on first use, and
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packages a genuine x64 app. Note: Bun's `fetch`→`Bun.write` streaming hung
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on the GitHub redirect chain; the script uses `curl -fsSL` deliberately.
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- **Core binary downloads**: the installed npm package ships mac-arm64
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binaries only; other `dist-<os>-<arch>` cores are fetched from
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`github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun/releases` at build time — network to
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GitHub is a build-time requirement on every fresh machine/runner.
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- **Artifact shapes** (stable channel, in `artifacts/`): macOS →
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`stable-macos-<arch>-miniSCP.dmg` + `.app.tar.zst` + `update.json`
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(updater feed); Windows → `stable-win-x64-miniSCP-Setup.zip`
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(self-extracting installer → `%LOCALAPPDATA%`) plus the script's own
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**portable zip** made from the assembled app folder under
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`build/stable-win-x64/` (layout to confirm on the first real Windows build —
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the step warns instead of failing); Linux → only
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`stable-linux-x64-miniSCP.tar.zst` + `update.json`, i.e. the updater feed and
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nothing installable, so the script's **`.tar.gz` of the assembled app folder**
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under `build/stable-linux-x64/` IS the release artifact (same best-effort
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warn). No AppImage/.deb/.desktop — unpack and run the `miniSCP.sh` wrapper the
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script writes beside `bin/launcher` (it applies the NVIDIA/DMABUF workaround,
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which the app cannot set for itself — see gotchas.md).
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- **Linux builds need the AppIndicator dev libraries present to RUN** (not to
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build) — see platform-notes.md; a packaged tarball started on a machine
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without them dies at `dlopen`.
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- The script filters artifacts by app name, so stale artifacts from older
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brandings don't get collected.
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## CI (Gitea Actions)
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`.gitea/workflows/release.yml` — tag-triggered (`build-*`), macos + windows
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runner matrix, each running the same release script; inert until act_runners
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with those labels are registered. Needs `fetch-depth: 0` (the build number is
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the commit count). Runner prereqs are commented in the workflow file.
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## Download host (`site/` + Caddy)
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`site/` is a self-contained landing page **and** download host, served by Caddy on an
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internal box (plain HTTP `:80`, no domain/TLS). Deploys to `/srv/miniscp/`.
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- `site/index.html` — pure static, no JS, tinygrad-minimal. Download buttons link to **fixed
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stable filenames** (`/dl/stable-macos-arm64-miniSCP.dmg`, …) so the page never changes per
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release. Logo/screenshot `<img>` slots are commented in, images live in `site/assets/`.
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- `site/Caddyfile` — one flat `/dl/*` folder with `file_server browse` + range requests, and
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per-type `Cache-Control`: `*.patch` immutable (unique hashed names), `*update.json` `no-cache`
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(updater must see new versions), installers (`*.dmg *.zip *.tar.zst`) `max-age=300` (stable
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names overwritten each release). Landing page has **no** SPA fallback → unknown paths 404.
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Path matcher gotcha: use suffix globs like `*update.json`, not `*/*update.json`.
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- **One flat folder, no per-build dirs** — this layout IS electrobun's `artifacts/` feed, so it
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doubles as the (future) updater `baseUrl`. Publishing = drop this machine's `artifacts/stable-*`
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into `/dl/`; installers overwrite in place, `.patch` files accumulate (never delete them, or
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older installs lose their incremental-update trail). **Tradeoff:** only the latest full
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installer is downloadable; old full versions are overwritten.
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- `site/deploy.sh` — run per build machine after `scripts/release.ts`; copies `artifacts/stable-*`
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and renames the build-numbered win portable zip to the stable `stable-win-x64-miniSCP-portable.zip`.
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`MINISCP_DL_DIR` overrides the target (stage locally, then rsync to the server).
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- `release.baseUrl = https://miniscp.com/dl` is set in `electrobun.config.ts`; `miniscp.com` is
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fronted by an external proxy for TLS (Caddy itself stays on `:80` behind it). The value is baked
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into `version.json` at build time, so only builds made after it was added check for updates.
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With `generatePatch` (default true), release builds now need **build-time network to
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`miniscp.com/dl`** so electrobun can fetch the currently-published version to diff a `.patch`
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(the first build after enabling it has nothing to diff and just ships the full artifacts).
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## Auto-updater (app side)
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Wired on top of the download host above. See the "Auto-updater" section in
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[architecture.md](architecture.md) for the runtime flow.
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- **Backend** ([src/bun/index.ts](../src/bun/index.ts)): `Updater.checkForUpdate()` runs ~5s after launch and
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every 6h; on `updateAvailable` it pushes `rpc.send.updateStatus({phase:"available",…})`.
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`Updater.onStatusChange` streams `download-progress` (0–100) → `updateStatus{downloading}`.
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`checkForUpdate` self-guards the `dev` channel, so `bun run dev` never shows the pill.
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- **RPC** ([src/shared/rpc.ts](../src/shared/rpc.ts)): requests `checkForUpdate` / `downloadUpdate` /
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`applyUpdate` (handlers in [rpc-handlers.ts](../src/bun/rpc-handlers.ts) call the electrobun `Updater`);
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push message `updateStatus`.
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- **UI**: `UpdaterService` ([ui/src/app/updater.service.ts](../ui/src/app/updater.service.ts)) holds signals
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(`state`/`version`/`progress`); the tab-bar "update pill" ([tab-bar.ts](../ui/src/app/tab-bar/tab-bar.ts))
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is one accent (`bg-primary`) control that announces → fills as a progress bar while downloading →
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"Restart to apply". `state` is `available → downloading → ready` (ready derived from the
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`downloadUpdate` response). App-menu "Check for Updates…" ([menu.ts](../src/bun/menu.ts)) routes a
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`check-for-updates` menu action into `UpdaterService.check()`.
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- **Unsigned is fine:** `applyUpdate()` strips the macOS quarantine xattr before relaunch, so the
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swapped bundle isn't Gatekeeper-blocked.
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## Icons
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`scripts/gen-icons.ts` (resvg, dev-time): renders `assets/logo.svg` into the
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macOS iconset + `icon.png`, a multi-size `assets/icon.ico` (Windows installer/
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taskbar, wired via `electrobun.config.ts win.icon`), the macOS tray template
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PNG from `assets/tray/tray-glyph.svg`, and a small colored Windows tray PNG.
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Rerun after touching either SVG; outputs are committed (build inputs).
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## electrobun config notes
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`electrobun.config.ts`: app identity comes from `BRANDING`; `build.bun.external`
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must keep `["cpu-features", "*.node"]` (ssh2's optional native accelerators —
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bundling them breaks the build; runtime falls back to pure JS);
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`build.copy` ships the Angular dist and tray assets into `views://`;
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`bundleCEF: false` everywhere (system WebKit / WebView2).
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