From c2c9748ab55187cffbe21288d52d4eb26a893990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BigBodyCobain <43977454+BigBodyCobain@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 18:59:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix(start-scripts): find bundled privacy_core.dll next to
 script
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start.bat and start.sh only checked the source-tree DLL path
(``privacy-core/target/release/privacy_core.dll``), not the bundled
location where MSI/AppImage/DMG installers stage the library directly
next to the script in backend-runtime/.

Users running start.bat from inside an MSI install dir (a documented
workaround when the desktop shell crashes) saw a scary "install Rust"
warning even though the DLL was sitting right next to them. See issue
#319 for the user-reported confusion.

Fix: add a fallback check for the bundled location before falling
through to the "build privacy-core from source" warning. Source-tree
behavior unchanged — the source path is still preferred when present.

Also re-stamps the v0.9.81 source archive: ``release_digests.json``
v0.9.81 zip hash updated to point at the rebuilt source archive that
contains these script changes. MSI/EXE/sig hashes are unchanged (the
scripts live at the repo root, not inside the desktop bundle).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/data/release_digests.json |  2 +-
 start.bat                         |  8 ++++++++
 start.sh                          | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/data/release_digests.json b/backend/data/release_digests.json
index 4bd3d16..3038653 100644
--- a/backend/data/release_digests.json
+++ b/backend/data/release_digests.json
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     "ShadowBroker_0.9.8_x64_en-US.msi": "fe22f9d51e4360d74c18a7250c2fbb9ed4fa4c7a884b3ac0d04a21115466386b"
   },
   "v0.9.81": {
-    "ShadowBroker_v0.9.81.zip": "42f8a51f9a5690d1e7349d90d8ecf2d163c9061d6cf90c69ee03647a785437ff",
+    "ShadowBroker_v0.9.81.zip": "31e5273253f329746ca2c4dc3f1da47e50a30981759b33056b3174e6474b9e4b",
     "ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64-setup.exe": "eca884b9d37eeccd0f11c91dcc6f6ae1b3609d9dee72bd73c37c9a427babfef2",
     "ShadowBroker_0.9.81_x64_en-US.msi": "a45b177c26c95d2b28d71592d7147e88ff4e104865f214fde11249d311ec9e25"
   }
diff --git a/start.bat b/start.bat
index 310d5da..4f670ce 100644
--- a/start.bat
+++ b/start.bat
@@ -237,6 +237,14 @@ echo [*] Backend Node.js dependencies OK.
 echo.
 echo [*] Checking privacy-core shared library...
 set "PRIVACY_CORE_DLL=%ROOT%\privacy-core\target\release\privacy_core.dll"
+:: MSI/EXE installers stage privacy_core.dll directly in backend-runtime/
+:: alongside this script. If somebody runs start.bat from an installed
+:: app directory (no source checkout, no Rust toolchain), they shouldn't
+:: see a spurious "install Rust" warning because the DLL is right next
+:: to them — just at a different path than the source-tree build.
+if not exist "%PRIVACY_CORE_DLL%" if exist "%ROOT%\privacy_core.dll" (
+    set "PRIVACY_CORE_DLL=%ROOT%\privacy_core.dll"
+)
 if not exist "%PRIVACY_CORE_DLL%" (
     where cargo >nul 2>&1
     if errorlevel 1 (
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index 2e69390..367574e 100644
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -203,6 +203,17 @@ echo ""
 echo "[*] Checking privacy-core shared library..."
 PRIVACY_CORE_SO="$SCRIPT_DIR/privacy-core/target/release/libprivacy_core.so"
 PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB="$SCRIPT_DIR/privacy-core/target/release/libprivacy_core.dylib"
+# MSI/AppImage/DMG installers stage the platform-specific shared library
+# directly alongside this script (in backend-runtime/). If somebody runs
+# start.sh from an installed app dir without Rust, they shouldn't see a
+# spurious "install Rust" warning — the library is right next to them,
+# just at a different path than the source-tree build.
+if [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_SO" ] && [ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.so" ]; then
+    PRIVACY_CORE_SO="$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.so"
+fi
+if [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB" ] && [ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.dylib" ]; then
+    PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB="$SCRIPT_DIR/libprivacy_core.dylib"
+fi
 if [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_SO" ] && [ ! -f "$PRIVACY_CORE_DYLIB" ]; then
     if command -v cargo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo "[*] Building privacy-core release library..."