Build from source

Build Roundcube from Source

For detailed instructions please read the Makefile included with Roundcube. This page provides a quick guide only.

Building Roundcube from source is pretty similar to Dev Releases.

1. Fetch the source from GitHub

git clone git://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail.git roundcubemail-git

2. Switch to the according branch

cd roundcubemail-git
git checkout tags/<Roundcube version>

e.g. git checkout tags/1.6.15

3. Install JavaScript dependencies

bin/install-jsdeps.sh

4. Compress Javascript files and add cache-buster tokens to images referenced from CSS styles

bin/jsshrink.sh
bin/updatecss.sh

5. Optionally compress CSS files as well

bin/cssshrink.sh

6. Remove development stuff, installer and git files

rm bin/transifexpull.sh bin/importgettext.sh bin/exportgettext.sh
rm -rf tests/ installer/ .git* .tx*

For 1.6 and below only

rm README.md INSTALL UPGRADING LICENSE CHANGELOG

7. Download and configure Composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/tmp/
cp composer.json-dist composer.json

8. Optionally, add dependencies for LDAP modules in order to enable LDAP address books in Roundcube

php /tmp/composer.phar require kolab/net_ldap3:dev-master --no-update

9. Install PHP dependencies using Composer

php /tmp/composer.phar install --prefer-dist --no-dev

The roundcubemail-git directory now contains a complete Roundcube installation ready for deployment or packaging.