Tiny eBook reader using only SDL or SDL2, djvulibre, and libmupdf.
Since there are no djvu readers with reasonable dependency requirements
(i.e. GTK+2, X11, SDL1 or 2, framebuffer) available, I decided to write
my own, by taking a firm glance at what djvulibre's ddjvu utility does
and rendering to a video buffer instead of a file. I'm not interested in
installing heavy-weight GUI toolkits such as QT4,5,GTK+3,4 etc just for
a simple eBook reader. Nor in installing python3 just to run someone's
meson build recipe.
As I dislike the interruptive page jumping of mupdf-x11, I've added
mupdf support too so it can take advantage of the smooth page border
scrolling mechanism of SDLBook. Therefore it now also supports all
the formats supported by mupdf, namely pdf, epub, fb2, xps,
openxps, cbz, cbr.
- Install
SDLanddjvulibrelibraries including development headers. - Compile using
gnu makeby runningmake CFLAGS=-O2. if you want to use SDL2, runmake SDL2=1 CFLAGS=-O2instead. - Install as root user by doing
make install prefix=/usr. - Run like
sdlbook /path/to/file.djvu - Press F1 to see available keyboard shortcuts
- Have fun reading.