Building Toggl Desktop from source for usage with live servers

Introduction

The apps on all platforms are created so that when building they all build the app to connect to our testing environment. This is a short guide on how to compile Toggl Desktop from source to be used with the live servers.

OS X

On OS X you have to change the KopsikEnvironment variable in the src/ui/osx/TogglDesktop/test2/TogglDesktop-Info.plist file. Replace development with production before building.

and

Remove these lines from the beginning of src/context.cc

    urls::SetUseStagingAsBackend(
        app_version.find("7.0.0") != std::string::npos);

Disabling updates checks

Nothing special is needed, the updater is disabled by default in development.

Windows

On Windows you have to change the Environment setting variable in the src/ui/windows/TogglDesktop/TogglDesktop/App.config file. Replace development with production before building the app and you are good to go.

If you are using cygwin this action can be complete with this one line sed command:

sed -i.bak "s/development/production/g" src/ui/windows/TogglDesktop/TogglDesktop/App.config

Also remove these lines from the beginning of src/context.cc

    urls::SetUseStagingAsBackend(
        app_version.find("7.0.0") != std::string::npos);

To disable updates checks to the following

Set the default value of update_check_disabled_ to true in context.cc

update_check_disabled_(false) ==>> update_check_disabled_(true)

Linux

Both setting the app to use the production servers and handling update checks is now done using CMake flags:

Before compiling, use the following CMake flags:

• TOGGL_PRODUCTION_BUILD (binary)
• TOGGL_ALLOW_UPDATE_CHECK (binary)
• TOGGL_VERSION (string) - not necessary, but good to have

So your CMake commandline would look like this, for example:

cmake .. -DTOGGL_PRODUCTION_BUILD=ON -DTOGGL_ALLOW_UPDATE_CHECK=ON -DTOGGL_VERSION=7.4.410