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-git

Use 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-nightly

Install 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.

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

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

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/mocktail

Known 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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