xavieryao/Zeal-macOS

Make Zeal compatible with and compilable on macOS

Zeal-macOS

To avoid unnecessary conflit with Dash, Zeal has been made hard to use on macOS. But with some minor patches you can easily maintain your own build of Zeal.

Requirements

• Qt 5 with QtWebEngine or QtWebView
• libarchive

My Environment

• macOS 10.12.2
• Qt 5.7.1
• libarchive

Build Instructions

1. Get and install Qt5.
2. Install libarchive. This step can be done easily by homebrew.

brew install libarchive

3. Get the code of Zeal if you want to build the latest version.

git clone https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal.git

Or clone this patched repository

git clone https://github.com/xavieryao/Zeal-macOS.git

4. (Optional) Make some slight modifications to compile on macOS, if you are building the original version source code. You can skip this step if you cloned this repository.

• Link libarchive. In src/libs/core/core.pri add

macx: {
    INCLUDEPATH += /usr/local/Cellar/libarchive/3.2.2/include
    LIBS += -L/usr/local/Cellar/libarchive/3.2.2/lib -larchive
}

• Link sqlite3. In /src/libs/util/util.pri add

macx: {
    LIBS += -lsqlite3
}

5. Build. In Qt Creator, use Release profile and build. You will find a Zeal.app if it has been built successfully.

Original Readme of Zeal

see ZEAL_README.md