Add rebuild-cli.sh script

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/desktop/README.md b/desktop/README.md
index a1406b47..053bf4ea 100644
--- a/desktop/README.md
+++ b/desktop/README.md
@@ -53,16 +53,6 @@ python scripts\get-tor-windows.py
 
 ### Prepare the code
 
-In order to work with the desktop app, you'll need to build a wheel of the CLI package first, and copy it into the `desktop` folder:
-
-```sh
-cd ../cli
-poetry install
-poetry build
-cp dist/onionshare_cli-*.whl ../desktop
-cd ../desktop
-```
-
 OnionShare uses [Briefcase](https://briefcase.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
 
 Install Briefcase dependencies by following [these instructions](https://docs.beeware.org/en/latest/tutorial/tutorial-0.html#install-dependencies).
@@ -86,6 +76,12 @@ While your virtual environment is active, install briefcase from pip.
 pip install briefcase
 ```
 
+In order to work with the desktop app, you'll need to build a wheel of the CLI package first, and copy it into the `desktop` folder. You'll need to re-run this script each time you change the CLI code.
+
+```sh
+./scripts/rebuild-cli.sh
+```
+
 Run OnionShare from the source tree like this:
 
 ```
diff --git a/desktop/scripts/rebuild-cli.sh b/desktop/scripts/rebuild-cli.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f8191955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/desktop/scripts/rebuild-cli.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Build the CLI python wheel and copy it to the desktop folder
+
+SCRIPTS_DIR="$( cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+cd $SCRIPTS_DIR
+cd ../../cli
+poetry build
+cp dist/*.whl ../desktop
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