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+# Building geckodriver
+
+geckodriver is written in [Rust], a systems programming language
+from Mozilla. Crucially, it relies on the [webdriver crate] to
+provide the HTTPD and do most of the heavy lifting of marshalling
+the WebDriver protocol. geckodriver translates WebDriver [commands],
+[responses], and [errors] to the [Marionette protocol], and acts
+as a proxy between [WebDriver] and [Marionette].
+
+To build geckodriver:
+
+```shell
+% ./mach build testing/geckodriver
+```
+
+If you use artifact builds you may build geckodriver using cargo,
+since mach in this case does not have a compile environment:
+
+```shell
+% cd testing/geckodriver
+% cargo build
+…
+Compiling geckodriver v0.21.0 (file:///code/gecko/testing/geckodriver)
+…
+Finished dev [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 7.83s
+```
+
+Because all Rust code in central shares the same cargo workspace,
+the binary will be put in the `$(topsrcdir)/target` directory.
+
+You can run your freshly built geckodriver this way:
+
+```shell
+% ./mach geckodriver -- --other --flags
+```
+
+See [Testing](Testing.md) for how to run tests.
+
+[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org/
+[webdriver crate]: https://crates.io/crates/webdriver
+[commands]: https://docs.rs/webdriver/newest/webdriver/command/
+[responses]: https://docs.rs/webdriver/newest/webdriver/response/
+[errors]: https://docs.rs/webdriver/newest/webdriver/error/enum.ErrorStatus.html
+[Marionette protocol]: /testing/marionette/Protocol.md
+[WebDriver]: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/
+[Marionette]: /testing/marionette/index.rst