# Building

## Dependencies

### Libraries
- [Qt](https://www.qt.io/)
  - at least 5.9 (codebase should largely work with Qt 5.7)
  - core, widgets
  - webengine, webenginewidgets
- [libconfig](https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/)

### Tools
* A working compiler
  - gcc or clang on Linux
  - msvc on Windows due to QtWebEngine
* qbs
  - minimal version 1.8.0

## Compiling

### Create qbs configuration
Before you can build anything with qbs, you need to set up the compiler
toolchain.

```
qbs setup-toolchains --detect
qbs setup-qt /usr/bin/qmake-qt5 qt5
```

### Compiling
```
mkdir ../build
qbs build -d ../build profile:qt5 release
```

## Packaging

### Source Tarball
```
# Get source code from the repository
git archive --format=tar HEAD > head.tar
# Compress with lzip
lzip -9 --force --output=head.tar.lz head.tar
# Generate checksum
sha512sum --binary head.tar.lz > head.tar.lz.sha512
```

### makepkg
A PKGBUILD is provided in linux/makepkg/PKGBUILD.

## Troubleshooting

### Cannot link libconfig
You don't have pkg-config installed.