goldendict-ng/README.md
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Introduction

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.

Requirements

This code has been run and tested on Windows XP/Vista/7, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X.

External Deps

  • Make, GCC
  • Qt framework 4.7.* or 4.8.*
  • 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

Installing External Deps on Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install pkg-config build-essential qt4-qmake \
     libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libhunspell-dev  x11proto-record-dev \
     qt4-qmake libqt4-dev libxtst-dev libphonon-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev

How to build

First, clone this repository, e.g.:

git clone git://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.git

And then invoke qmake and make:

cd goldendict && qmake && make

Alternatively, you might want to load goldendict.pro file from within Qt Creator, especially on Windows.

Installation

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!

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ license, a copy of which can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.

Support

Users looking for support should file an issue on the GitHub issue tracking page, or file a pull request if you have a fix available. General questions should be asked on the official GoldenDict forum.