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.
This code has been run and tested on Windows XP/Vista/7, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X.
- Make, GCC, Git
- Qt framework. Minimum required version is 4.6 for Windows, 4.5 for all other platforms. But Qt 4.7 or 4.8 is recommended.
- If you want to use Qt 5.x then use branch qt4x5
- 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
sudo apt-get install git pkg-config build-essential qt4-qmake \
libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libhunspell-dev x11proto-record-dev \
libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev libxtst-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev \
libao-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libtiff5-dev libeb16-dev
First, clone this repository, e.g.:
git clone git://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.git
And then invoke qmake-qt4 and make:
cd goldendict && qmake-qt4 && make
In case when qmake-qt4 does not exist, try using qmake but make sure it is indeed from the Qt 4 installation.
Alternatively, you might want to load goldendict.pro file from within Qt Creator, especially on Windows.
To add Chinese conversion support you need at first install libopencc-dev package:
sudo apt-get install libopencc-dev
Then pass "CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support" to qmake
qmake "CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support"
To add Zim and Slob formats support you need at first install lzma-dev package:
sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev
Then pass "CONFIG+=zim_support" to qmake
qmake "CONFIG+=zim_support"
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"
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"
If you have problem building with FFmpeg/libao (for example, Ubuntu older than 12.04), you can pass
"DISABLE_INTERNAL_PLAYER=1" to qmake in order to disable internal audio player completely:
qmake "DISABLE_INTERNAL_PLAYER=1"
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" "DISABLE_INTERNAL_PLAYER=1"
Then, invoke make clean before make because the setting change:
make clean && make
To build GoldenDict with Visual Studio take one of next library packs and unpack it to "winlibs/lib/msvc" folder in GoldenDict sources folder.
GoldenDict_libs_VS2013_x86_v2.7z - for MS Visual Studio 2013, 32 bit
GoldenDict_libs_VS2013_x64_v2.7z - for MS Visual Studio 2013, 64 bit
GoldenDict_libs_VS2015_x86_v2.7z - for MS Visual Studio 2015, 32 bit
GoldenDict_libs_VS2015_x64_v2.7z - for MS Visual Studio 2015, 64 bit
To create project files for Visual Studio you can pass "-tp vc" option to qmake.
Note: In Qt 5.6.0 and later the Webkit module was removed from official release builds. You should to build it from sources to compile GoldenDict.
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!
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ license, a copy of which can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.
Users looking for support should file an issue in the official GoldenDict issue tracker, or even better: submit a pull request if you have a fix available. General questions should be asked on the official GoldenDict forum.