Mocktail
Mocktail runs the Android x86_64 Roblox client on Linux and has experimental
aarch64 builds for the Android arm64-v8a client. It also runs in a Linux
userspace hosted by FreeBSD's Linuxulator. Mocktail provides the Android ABI
and JNI pieces the client expects, then connects them to SDL3 and Vulkan or
OpenGL on the Linux side.
Mocktail is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with Roblox Corporation or VinegarHQ and does not distribute the Roblox client.
How it works
Roblox APK -> signature and ABI checks -> Bionic + JNI -> SDL3 + Vulkan/OpenGL
The APK is checked before any native code is loaded. It is downloaded on first launch and is not bundled with Mocktail. The last working copy is kept in case an update fails.
Install with Flatpak
Install the stable release from Flathub:
flatpak install flathub space.bigrat.mocktail flatpak run space.bigrat.mocktail
Nightly builds are produced automatically from the latest main branch:
flatpak install --user https://mocktail.bigrat.space/mocktail.flatpakref flatpak run space.bigrat.mocktail
Install from the AUR
Arch Linux users can install either the pinned source release (mocktail) or
the current development version (mocktail-git) with an AUR helper:
paru -S mocktail-git
# or
yay -S mocktail-gitUse mocktail instead of mocktail-git to build the pinned release from
source, or install the stable prebuilt package with paru -S mocktail-bin or
yay -S mocktail-bin.
Install with DNF
Fedora 44 users can install either the stable mocktail package or the
mocktail-nightly package built from main:
sudo curl -fsSL https://mocktail.bigrat.space/rpm/mocktail.repo \
-o /etc/yum.repos.d/mocktail.repo
sudo dnf install mocktail
# or
sudo dnf install mocktail-nightlyInstall with APT
Ubuntu 26.04 users can install either the stable mocktail package or the
mocktail-nightly package built from main:
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings sudo curl -fsSL https://mocktail.bigrat.space/mocktail-packages.gpg \ -o /etc/apt/keyrings/mocktail.gpg echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/mocktail.gpg] https://mocktail.bigrat.space/apt mocktail main" | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mocktail.list >/dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install mocktail # or sudo apt install mocktail-nightly
Direct downloads
Direct AppImage, DEB, and RPM downloads are available from the Website and GitHub Releases.
FFlag overrides
Put a JSON object in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mocktail/fflags.json (usually
~/.config/mocktail/fflags.json). Mocktail applies it on the next launch.
PC profiles use the legacy Charts page by default to avoid the blank screen
caused by Color3 errors in the newer SDUI page. An explicit
FFlagLuaAppChartsAppPage override takes precedence over this default.
{
"FFlagExample": "True",
"DFIntExample": "120"
}FAQ
To see the most Frequently Asked Question go check FAQ.md
Building
Linux x86_64 is supported. Linux aarch64 builds are available, with Roblox
runtime validation still experimental. FreeBSD 15.1 Linuxulator support is
experimental and has been tested with an x86_64 Fedora 44 userspace. On
FreeBSD, Mocktail runs inside Linuxulator; it is not a native FreeBSD binary.
Building requires CMake 3.20+, Git, pkg-config, LLD, binutils, a C++17
compiler, SDL 3.4+, SDL3_ttf,
Vulkan, EGL, libplacebo, fontconfig, libcurl, OpenSSL, libelf, libyaml, minizip,
Capstone 5, utf8proc, nlohmann/json, GTK4, libadwaita 1.6+, and WebKitGTK 6.0.
See the FreeBSD Guide for setup and launch instructions.
Ubuntu 26.04+
sudo apt update sudo apt install build-essential cmake git ninja-build pkg-config lld \ libsdl3-dev libsdl3-ttf-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev \ nlohmann-json3-dev libyaml-dev libelf-dev libminizip-dev \ libcapstone-dev libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev \ libutf8proc-dev libfontconfig1-dev libegl-dev libvulkan-dev \ libplacebo-dev libpng-dev zlib1g-dev
Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel cmake git ninja pkgconf lld sdl3 sdl3_ttf \ curl openssl nlohmann-json libyaml libelf minizip capstone gtk4 \ libadwaita webkitgtk-6.0 libutf8proc fontconfig libglvnd \ libplacebo vulkan-headers vulkan-icd-loader zlib
Fedora 44+
sudo dnf install gcc-c++ cmake git ninja-build pkgconf-pkg-config lld \ SDL3-devel SDL3_ttf-devel libcurl-devel openssl-devel \ nlohmann-json-devel libyaml-devel elfutils-libelf-devel minizip-ng-compat-devel \ capstone-devel gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel webkitgtk6.0-devel \ utf8proc-devel fontconfig-devel libglvnd-devel vulkan-headers \ vulkan-loader-devel libplacebo-devel zlib-ng-compat-devel
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/komaruworld/mocktail.git
cd mocktail
make build
./build/mocktailKnown limitations
Mocktail does not currently work with hardened_malloc. Using
hardened_malloc may cause Mocktail to fail to start or crash during runtime.
Run Mocktail without hardened_malloc enabled.
License
Apache License 2.0. Third-party components keep their own licenses.
Support
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