goldendict-ng/README.md

# GoldenDict-ng

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The Next Generation GoldenDict. A feature-rich open-source dictionary lookup program,
supporting [multiple dictionary formats](https://xiaoyifang.github.io/goldendict-ng/dictformats/) and online
dictionaries.

| Linux | Windows | macOS |
|--|--|--|
| [<img src="website/docs/img/linux_genshin.webp" width="500"/>](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng/staged/website/docs/img/linux_genshin.webp) | [<img src="website/docs/img/windows_white.webp" width="500"/>](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng/staged/website/docs/img/windows_white.webp) | [<img src="website/docs/img/mac_black.webp" width="500"/>](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng/staged/website/docs/img/mac_black.webp) |

# Some significant features of this fork

- webengine with latest html/css feature support
- support >4GB dictionary
- support highdpi screen resolution
- built with xapian(optional) as fulltext engine
- support Qt5.15.2 and higher ,include latest Qt6
- performance optimization(eg. >10000000 headwords support) 
- anki integration
- dark theme
- daily auto release support
- lots of bug fixes and improvements

## Installation

### Downloads

* [Latest stable version](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict/releases/latest)
* [Daily pre-release builds](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict/releases).

Both Qt5 and Qt6 builds are provided.

## Windows

Choose either

* `****-installer.exe ` for traditional installer experience
* `****.zip` for simply unzip and run experience

If Qt's version is not changed, you can also download a single `goldendict.exe` and drop it into previous installation's folder.

## Linux

`.Appimage` can be used in any recent linux distros.

[Debian packages](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/goldendict-webengine) are available in Debian 12 or later.

[Ubuntu packages](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/goldendict-webengine) are available in Ubuntu 23.04 or later.

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.

> Help wanted to package this GoldenDict for linux distros.

## macOS

One of the `.dmg` installers.

## 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 \
        libxtst-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev \
        libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libeb16-dev \
        libqt5svg5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qttools5-dev \
        qttools5-dev-tools qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5webchannel5-dev qtwebengine5-dev \
        libqt5texttospeech5-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 \
     ffmpeg-devel eb-devel qt5-qtx11extras-devel libXtst-devel \
     libxkbcommon-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qttools qt5-qtsvg-devl qt5-qtwebengine-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel
```

### Build steps

Clone this repository:
```
git clone https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng.git
```

#### Linux build

```
cd goldendict-ng && qmake-qt5 && make
```

#### macOS build

```
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"
make 
make install
```

#### Windows build

the source code has offered precompile x64 windows libs on winlibs/lib/msvc. you can build your own version either.

To build with Visual Studio.
check this [how to build with visual studio](howto/how%20to%20build%20and%20debug%20with%20VS2019.md)

Alternatively, you might want to load `goldendict.pro` file from within Qt Creator.

### Build Configurations

**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"
```

To ensure the changes applied, you may want to use `make clean` before `make`.

#### Building with Chinese conversion support

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 libopencc-dev
```

#### Building with Zim dictionaries 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`

```
sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev libzstd-dev
```

#### 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

#### Building without internal audio players

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.

#### Building with xapian

build xapian from source, download and extract the xapian-core source code.

```
./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"
```

use `CONFIG+=use_iconv` to enable this feature. when enabled ,iconv will be used to convert encoding other than the QTextCodec(which will be deprecated in future Qt version)

```
qmake "CONFIG+=use_iconv"
```

when enabled ,iconv should be installed on the platform at the same time.


## Contributing

All kinds of help like answering questions, bug reporting, testing, translation and coding are welcomed.

## Support

Bug reporting: [GoldenDict issue tracker](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng/issues)

General discussions: [discussions](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng/discussions)

## License

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

## History

The original project was developed at <http://goldendict.org/> and <https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict>.