Building

Follow these instructions to build blobsaver yourself:

1. Install JDK 19 on your machine.
2. Download the source code for the release you want, or from master.
3. If you are building for a platform that's not macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon), Windows (x86_64), or Linux (x86_64), download tsschecker for your architecture from here and replace the file in the correct location for your platform:
   • dist/linux/tsschecker (Linux)
   • dist/macos/Contents/MacOS/tsschecker (macOS)
   • dist/windows/files/lib/tsschecker.exe (Windows).
4. On any Linux platform or not one of the aforementioned platforms, install the libraries libimobiledevice and libirecovery, which should be in your distribution's default repositories.
5. Run ./gradlew assemble in the root of the repository and you should have the compiled installers in the directory build/distributions

You can supply additional arguments to the build:

• -PnoCompress=true: don't compress the java bytecode and keep debug information, useful for debugging
• -PnoConsole=false: (windows only) show console by default when running app
• -PinstallerType=[value]: [value] can be one of:
  • zip
  • tgz
  • deb: (linux only)
  • rpm: (linux only)
  • pkg: (mac only) build pkg installer

For example: ./gradlew build -PnoCompress=true -PnoConsole=false -PinstallerType=zip

If you don't want to build an installer and just want the directory, run ./gradlew jpackageImage instead and you will find the files in build/jpackage.