Bolt/README.md

Bolt

An alternative, CEF-based client for running your favourite helper applications for your favourite MMO.

Building

If you just want to get Bolt installed then you don't need to build it from source! Check the "Releases" section on the right.

But if you do want to build from source, the first thing you should know is that Bolt is based on Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), so to build it, you'll first need to build or otherwise obtain a binary distribution of Chromium. Bolt was developed based on Chromium 111.0.5563.65; there will be issues with newer or older versions. When building, all of the patches in the cef/patch directory should be applied to the chromium/src directory before running the ninja build command; four of them are fixes required to compile with llvm15 and the final one adds a transparency feature which is used by Bolt.

Place the entire binary distribution folder inside the cef directory with the name "dist", or create a symbolic link with the same effect.

You'll also need the following dependencies:

• fmt (fmt-devel or libfmt-dev on most Linux package managers)
• tesseract (tesseract-devel, tesseract-ocr-devel or libtesseract-dev on most Linux package managers)
• For Linux, X11 development libraries (x11-devel or libx11-dev on most Linux package managers) as well as the development libraries for X11's Shape, Record and Composite extensions, which may or may not be in separate packages from the general X11 one in your package manager.

Once that's done, simply build with meson: meson setup build then meson compile -C buiid. If it compiled successfully you'll be able to run Bolt from inside the build directory. On a non-Windows platform, you may also install it by running meson install -C build.