The Next Generation GoldenDict. A feature-rich open-source dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats and online dictionaries.
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- webengine with latest html/css feature support
- support >4GB dictionary
- support highdpi screen resolution
- built with xapian 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
Both Qt5 and Qt6 builds are provided.
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.
.Appimage
can be used in any recent linux distros.- Debian packages are available in Debian 12 or later.
- Ubuntu packages are available in Ubuntu 23.04 or later.
- Archlinux can use goldendict-ng-git. Built binary is also availiable from archlinuxcn's repo.
- Gentoo package from PG_Overlay
- openSUSE ships an old version of this fork.
Help wanted to package this GoldenDict for linux distros.
One of the .dmg
installers.
GoldenDict is developed by volunteers.
All kinds of help like answering questions, bug reporting, testing, translation and coding are welcomed.
To translate the interface, you can use the Crowdin https://crowdin.com/project/goldendict-ng
To start development, check out developer guide
- 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
.
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
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
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng.git
cd goldendict-ng && qmake-qt5 && make
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
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
Alternatively, you might want to load goldendict.pro
file from within Qt Creator.
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
.
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
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
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
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.
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
On Linux, install libxapian-dev package using package manager.
On Mac, use homebrew to install xapian brew install xapian
Goldendict-ng has used xapian as the default and the only one fulltext engine.
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.
use CONFIG+=use_breakpad
to enable this crash dump. when enabled breakpad, goldendict will generate a crash dump alongside with Goldendict in the crash
directory.
on Windows:
vcpkg install breakpad:x64-windows-release
and copy the installed packages into thirdparty/breakpad
directory.
with a structure like this:
├─breakpad
│ ├─include
│ │ ├─client
│ │ │ └─windows
│ │ │ ├─common
│ │ │ ├─crash_generation
│ │ │ ├─handler
│ │ │ └─sender
│ │ ├─common
│ │ │ └─windows
│ │ └─google_breakpad
│ │ ├─common
│ │ └─processor
│ └─lib
on Mac/Linux: vcpkg can also be used or you can just install breakpad from source or use precompiled packages.
Then enable google breakpad like this with qmake:
qmake "CONFIG+=use_breakpad"
Bug reporting: GoldenDict issue tracker
General discussions: discussions
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ license, a copy of which can be found in the LICENSE.txt
file.
The original project was developed at http://goldendict.org/ and https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.