Biru

An online manga reading utility

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Dependencies

In order to run, you must have gtk3 and libsoup installed, depends on your GNU/Linux distro, package names may vary. Vala compiler and meson are required to build, not to run.

# on Archlinux
sudo pacman -S --needed gtk3 libsoup vala meson

# on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libvala-dev valac meson libgtk-3-dev libsoup-gnome2.4-dev libjson-glib-dev

Building

Clone this project

git clone https://github.com/l4rzy/biru.git

Go to project folder, and call meson to generate build files in a new directory (b in this case)

cd biru
meson b

Go to build folder and call ninja to build

cd b
ninja

Run with

./biru

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md

Authors

l4rzy - Initial work -

Acknowledges

fondo - ui inspiration and some code tricks
vala-gkt-examples - exellent sample code
official vala tutorial - good sample code for async
hackup - nice sample code

License

GPLv3