Question: Windows support

[DonaldTsang]

Does this repo work on windows, since Qt does work on windows?
If not, what changes would need to be in place to allow for that?

[thomasjeung]

This project works on windows.

[DonaldTsang]

Is it possible to give a guide on how to use the releases zip file?

[codevenkat]

Prebuilt binaries for windows?

[DonaldTsang]

@codevenkat good idea, the thing is that the zips are not "open to use" @thomasjeung.

[codevenkat]

I really think you should get prebuilt binaries; I don't see anyone other than developers being able to build this application otherwise

[thomasjeung]

Do you have problem compiling for windows? I was able to compile and run without any major hassel. Let me know where you got stuck, I might be able to help.

[codevenkat]

I have problems trying to get djvu support, the library doesn't seem to install for me

[BradKML]

@thomasjeung @codevenkat any news? would like something like this to be included for windows first to gain interest. DjVU bugs seems minor as the majority uses MOBI and EPUB.

[thomasjeung]

@BrandonKMLee If you are still struggling, try the below step.

1. from setup.cfg, comment out single-version-externally-managed=1
2. run pip install -r requirements.txt
3. if anything error out due to the version number, try running pip install package name. for me I had to install mupdf and lxml separately.
4. from root run python setup.py build and python setup.py install. -> creates lector.exe

[BradKML]

For Step 3

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PyMuPDF==1.14.8 (from versions: 1.11.2, 1.12.5, 1.13.20, 1.14.19.post2, 1.14.20, 1.14.21, 1.16.0, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.16.6, 1.16.7, 1.16.8, 1.16.9, 1.16.10, 1.16.11, 1.16.12, 1.16.13, 1.16.14, 1.16.15, 1.16.16, 1.16.17, 1.16.18, 1.17.0, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.17.3, 1.17.4, 1.17.5, 1.17.6, 1.17.7, 1.18.0, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.18.3, 1.18.4, 1.18.5, 1.18.6, 1.18.7, 1.18.8, 1.18.9, 1.18.10, 1.18.11, 1.18.12, 1.18.13, 1.18.14)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for PyMuPDF==1.14.8

When attempting to install

pip install PyMuPDF
Collecting PyMuPDF
  Downloading PyMuPDF-1.18.14-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl (5.4 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 5.4 MB 3.3 MB/s
Installing collected packages: PyMuPDF
Successfully installed PyMuPDF-1.18.14

pip install PyMuPDF==1.14.8
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PyMuPDF==1.14.8 (from versions: 1.11.2, 1.12.5, 1.13.20, 1.14.19.post2, 1.14.20, 1.14.21, 1.16.0, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.16.6, 1.16.7, 1.16.8, 1.16.9, 1.16.10, 1.16.11, 1.16.12, 1.16.13, 1.16.14, 1.16.15, 1.16.16, 1.16.17, 1.16.18, 1.17.0, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.17.3, 1.17.4, 1.17.5, 1.17.6, 1.17.7, 1.18.0, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.18.3, 1.18.4, 1.18.5, 1.18.6, 1.18.7, 1.18.8, 1.18.9, 1.18.10, 1.18.11, 1.18.12, 1.18.13, 1.18.14)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for PyMuPDF==1.14.8

[BradKML]

python setup.py build & python setup.py install
C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:477: UserWarning: The version specified ('0.5.GittyGittyBangBang') is an invalid version, this may not work as expected with newer versions of setuptools, pip, and PyPI. Please see PEP 440 for more details.
  warnings.warn(
running build
running build_py
running egg_info
writing lector.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to lector.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to lector.egg-info\entry_points.txt
writing requirements to lector.egg-info\requires.txt
writing top-level names to lector.egg-info\top_level.txt
adding license file 'LICENSE' (matched pattern 'LICEN[CS]E*')
adding license file 'AUTHORS' (matched pattern 'AUTHORS*')
reading manifest file 'lector.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'lector.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
C:\Python39\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:477: UserWarning: The version specified ('0.5.GittyGittyBangBang') is an invalid version, this may not work as expected with newer versions of setuptools, pip, and PyPI. Please see PEP 440 for more details.
  warnings.warn(
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing lector.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to lector.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to lector.egg-info\entry_points.txt
writing requirements to lector.egg-info\requires.txt
writing top-level names to lector.egg-info\top_level.txt
adding license file 'LICENSE' (matched pattern 'LICEN[CS]E*')
adding license file 'AUTHORS' (matched pattern 'AUTHORS*')
reading manifest file 'lector.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'lector.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build\bdist.win-amd64\egg
running install_lib
running build_py
creating build\bdist.win-amd64\egg
creating build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\annotations.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\contentwidgets.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\database.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\definitionsdialog.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\delegates.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\dockwidgets.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
copying build\lib\lector\guifunctions.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
creating build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\compatibility_utils.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\kindleunpack.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_cover.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_dict.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_header.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_html.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
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copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_opf.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_pagemap.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_sectioner.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_split.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_uncompress.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\mobi_utils.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
copying build\lib\lector\KindleUnpack\unipath.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\KindleUnpack
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copying build\lib\lector\models.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector
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copying build\lib\lector\resources\pie_chart.py -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\resources
creating build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\resources\raw
copying build\lib\lector\resources\raw\io.github.BasioMeusPuga.Lector.desktop -> build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\lector\resources\raw
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[BradKML]

Some feedback:

1. fix the requirements option, as they tend to get a bit whacky with the versioning
2. The EXE file is currently stored in the Python folder and not in the user folder
3. It might be better to repackage this as a Chocolatey package for Windows

[char101]

To run this on Windows we only need to fix some of the requirements version

1. Install python and git
2. Open a console window
3. git clone https://github.com/BasioMeusPuga/Lector
4. cd Lector
5. python -m pip install beautifulsoup4==4.7.1 lxml==4.6.5 PyMuPDF PyQt5 PyQt5-sip soupsieve==1.7.3 xmltodict==0.11.0
6. python -m lector

Some impressions on this app

1. It is one of the ebook readers with tabs
2. It uses QTextBrowserView rather than QWebEngineView which should use less resource and the rendering result is suprisingly pretty good