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-## Introduction
+# GoldenDict
-GoldenDict is a feature-rich dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats (StarDict/Babylon/Lingvo/Dictd/AARD/MDict/SDict) and online dictionaries, featuring perfect article rendering with the complete markup, illustrations and other content retained, and allowing you to type in words without any accents or correct case.
+A feature-rich dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats (StarDict/Babylon/Lingvo/Dictd/AARD/MDict/SDict) and online dictionaries, featuring perfect article rendering with the complete markup, illustrations and other content retained, and allowing you to type in words without any accents or correct case.
-## Requirements
+## Installation
-This code has been run and tested on Windows 10/11, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X.
+### Windows and macOS
-### External Deps
+Download latest [stable](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict/releases/latest) version or daily [pre-release builds](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict/releases).
-* Make, GCC, Git
-* Qt framework. Minimum required version is 5.15 and support the latest QT version 6.X
-* Qt Creator IDE is recommended for development
-* Various libraries on Linux (png, zlib, etc)
-* On Mac and Windows all the libraries are already included in the repository
+`.exe` for Windows users and `.dmg` for macOS users.
+### Linux
-#### Installing External Deps on Ubuntu Linux for Qt5
+The download links above includes `.Appimage` for Linux users.
+
+Archlinux users can also use community maintained [goldendict-webengine-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/goldendict-webengine-git).
+
+openSUSE ships an old version of this fork.
+
+Helps are needed to deliver this fork to other distros!
+
+## Build from source
+
+### Dependencies
+
+* C++17 compiler
+* Qt 5.15 or latest QT version 6.X
+* Various libraries on Linux, see below
+* On Mac and Windows all the libraries are included in the repository
+* Qt Creator is recommended for development
+
+Steps below are using qt5, and you may use qt6 by replacing `5` with `6`.
+
+#### Ubuntu
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install git pkg-config build-essential qt5-qmake \
+ libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libhunspell-dev x11proto-record-dev \
+ qtdeclarative5-dev libxtst-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev \
+ libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libtiff5-dev libeb16-dev \
+ libqt5svg5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qttools5-dev \
+ qttools5-dev-tools qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5webchannel5-dev qtwebengine5-dev
+```
+
+#### Fedora 35
- sudo apt-get install git pkg-config build-essential qt5-qmake \
- libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libhunspell-dev x11proto-record-dev \
- qtdeclarative5-dev libxtst-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev \
- libao-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libtiff5-dev libeb16-dev \
- libqt5svg5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qttools5-dev \
- qttools5-dev-tools qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5webchannel5-dev qtwebengine5-dev
-
-### Fedora 35
```
sudo dnf install git pkg-config libzstd-devel opencc-devel xz-devel xz-lzma-compat\
libvorbis-devel zlib-devel hunspell-devel lzo-devel bzip2-devel \
- libao-devel ffmpeg-devel libtiff-devel eb-devel qt5-qtx11extras-devel libXtst-devel \
- libxkbcommon-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qttools qt5-qtsvg-devl qt5-qtwebengine-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devl
-
+ ffmpeg-devel libtiff-devel eb-devel qt5-qtx11extras-devel libXtst-devel \
+ libxkbcommon-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qttools qt5-qtsvg-devl qt5-qtwebengine-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel
```
-## How to build
+### Build steps
-First, clone this repository, e.g.:
+Clone this repository:
+```
+git clone https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict.git
+```
- git clone https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict.git
+#### Linux build
+```
+cd goldendict && qmake-qt5 && make
+```
-### Linux (fedora)
-And then invoke `qmake-qt5` and `make`:
+#### macOS build
- cd goldendict && qmake-qt5 && make
-
-### ArchLinux
-
-on archlinux based os, you can use `yay` to install the community goldendict-webengine-git .
-
- #(Manjaro distribution)
- pacman -S --needed git base-devel yay
-
- yay -S goldendict-webengine-git
-
-### macOS
```
brew install qt # or use official offline installer
-qmake CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=zim_support CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS="x86_64 arm64"
+qmake CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=zim_support CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS="x86_64 arm64"
make
make install
```
-### Windows
-Alternatively, you might want to load `goldendict.pro` file from within Qt Creator, especially on Windows.
+#### Windows build
+the source code has offered precompile x64 windows libs on winlibs/lib/msvc. you can build your own version either.
-### Building with Chinese conversion support
+To build with Visual Studio.
+check this [how to build with visual studio](howto/how%20to%20build%20and%20debug%20with%20VS2019.md)
-To add Chinese conversion support you need at first install libopencc-dev package:
+Alternatively, you might want to load `goldendict.pro` file from within Qt Creator.
- sudo apt-get install libopencc-dev
+### Build Configurations
-Then pass `"CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support"` to `qmake`
+**Notice**: All additional configs for `qmake` that must be combined in one of pass config options to `qmake`:
+```
+qmake-qt5 "CONFIG+=release" "CONFIG+=zim_support" "CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support"
+```
- qmake "CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support"
+To ensure the changes applied, you may want to use `make clean` before `make`.
-### Building with Zim dictionaries support
+#### Building with Chinese conversion support
-To add Zim and Slob formats support you need at first install lzma-dev and zstd-dev packages:
+To add Chinese conversion support you need at first install libopencc-dev package, then pass `"CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support"` to `qmake`.
- sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev libzstd-dev
+```
+sudo apt-get install libopencc-dev
+```
-Then pass `"CONFIG+=zim_support"` to `qmake`
+#### Building with Zim dictionaries support
- qmake "CONFIG+=zim_support"
+To add Zim and Slob formats support you need at first install lzma-dev and zstd-dev packages, then pass `"CONFIG+=zim_support"` to `qmake`
-### Building without extra tiff handler( DEPRECATED )
+```
+sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev libzstd-dev
+```
+
+#### Building without extra tiff handler( DEPRECATED )
**deprecated: qt has offered b/w tiff support which means this options should always _enabled_. intend to remove in the future.**
@@ -98,77 +120,55 @@ If you have problem building with libtiff5-dev package, you can pass
`"CONFIG+=no_extra_tiff_handler"` to `qmake` in order to disable extra tiff support
(without such extra support some b/w tiff images will not be displayed):
- qmake "CONFIG+=no_extra_tiff_handler"
-
-### Building without Epwing format support
+#### Building without Epwing format support
If you have problem building with libeb-dev package, you can pass
`"CONFIG+=no_epwing_support"` to `qmake` in order to disable Epwing format support
- qmake "CONFIG+=no_epwing_support"
+#### Building without internal audio players
-### Building without internal audio players
-
-If you have problem building with FFmpeg/libao (for example, Ubuntu older than 12.04), you can pass
-`"CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player"` to `qmake` in order to disable FFmpeg+libao internal audio player back end:
-
- qmake "CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player"
+If you have problem building with FFmpeg (for example, very old linux distro), you can pass
+`"CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player"` to `qmake` in order to disable FFmpeg internal audio player back end.
If you have problem building with Qt5 Multimedia or experience GStreamer run-time errors (for example, Ubuntu 14.04), you can pass
-`"CONFIG+=no_qtmultimedia_player"` to `qmake` in order to disable Qt Multimedia internal audio player back end:
+`"CONFIG+=no_qtmultimedia_player"` to `qmake` in order to disable Qt Multimedia internal audio player back end.
- qmake "CONFIG+=no_qtmultimedia_player"
-
-NB: All additional settings for `qmake` that you need must be combined in one `qmake` launch, for example:
-
- qmake "CONFIG+=zim_support" "CONFIG+=no_extra_tiff_handler" "CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player"
-
-
-Then, invoke `make clean` before `make` because the setting change:
-
- make clean && make
-
-### Building with xapian
+#### Building with xapian
build xapian from source, download and extract the xapian-core source code.
- ./configure
- make
- make install
+```
+./configure
+make
+make install
+```
On Windows,follow the instructions in the xapian-core/INSTALL Visual Studio parts.(**xapian does not support to use the Debug lib in Windows. have to debug in release version mode using xapian's release lib**).
A precompiled version of xapian lib has provided in winlibs
use `CONFIG+=use_xapian` to enable this feature. when enabled ,xapian will be used to support as the the fulltext's backend engine.
- qmake "CONFIG+=use_xapian"
+```
+qmake "CONFIG+=use_xapian"
+```
-### Building under Windows with MS Visual Studio
+## Contributing
-the source code has offered precompile x64 windows libs on winlibs/lib/msvc. you can build your own version either.
+All kinds of help like answering questions, bug reporting, testing translation and coding are welcomed.
-To build with Visual Studio.
-check this [how to build with visual studio](howto/how%20to%20build%20and%20debug%20with%20VS2019.md)
+To start coding, the easiest way is load the `goldendict.pro` file to Qt Creator, make some changes then press the run button.
+## Support
-## Installation
+Bug reporting: [GoldenDict issue tracker](https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues)
-Installation is an optional step since the built binary can be used as-is without installation. But you can properly install via:
-
- make install
-
-NB: Don't do that on Windows!
-
-You can uninstall via:
-
- make uninstall
+General discussions: [discussions](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict/discussions)
## License
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ license, a copy of which can be found in the `LICENSE.txt` file.
-## Support
+## History
+
+The original project was developed at and .
-Users looking for support should file an issue in the official [GoldenDict issue tracker](https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues),
-or even better: submit a [pull request](https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/pulls) if you have a fix available.
-General questions should be asked on the [official GoldenDict forum](http://goldendict.org/forum/).