If you can, you should use precompiled packages for your distribution. But if you cannot use them, or they are not available, please read this information before compiling. After your binary is successfully compiled, you need to copy bin/ folder from git to specific directory by your system you compiled for. On Linux, you can easily do it by running make install. If you are unsure where is the right place, you can check it directly from QupZilla by clicking from Help Menu on Configuration Information, then in Path section.
You may want to build QupZilla with debugging symbols (for generating backtrace of crash). You can enable debug build with:
qmake CONFIG+=debug -r
QupZilla requires Qt (>= 5.15) and QtWebEngine (at least version included in Qt 5.15)
You need Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler, Qt Libraries 5.15 or higher and openssl libraries. in order to build QupZilla.
You need to have Qt 5 (>= 5.15) with QtWebEngine. Next compulsory requirement is OpenSSL (libcrypto). xcb libraries are also required unless you specify NO_X11 build option.
To build KWallet plugin, you need: - KF5 KWallet - set KDE_INTEGRATION build flag
To build Gnome-Keyring plugin, you need - libgnome-keyring-dev installed - set GNOME_INTEGRATION build flag
For debug build, gdb is required by qmake.
You need to have Xcode from the Apple App Store installed in Applications, Command Line Tools for the same Xcode version may be included depending on the version,
Homebrew, and $ brew install openssl for openssl.
Next compulsory requirement is Qt 5 (>= 5.15) with QtWebEngine.
After successful compilation, you need to build the application bundle. You will do it with following command:
$ make bundle
You can set define directly in file (src/defines.pri) or set environment variable by
$ export NAME="value"
General:
PORTABLE_BUILD QupZilla won't write any data outside of path of execution.
It will also disable plugins by default.
(disabled by default)
example:
$ export PORTABLE_BUILD="true"
Windows specific defines:
W7API Enable Windows 7 API support
Requires linking against libraries from Microsoft Visual C++
Compiler 2010
(enabled by default)
Linux / Unix specific defines:
NO_X11 Disable all X11 calls.
Enable this when building for Wayland-only.
All X11 calls are guarded by runtime X11 platform check
even without this option.
example:
$ export NO_X11="true"
KDE_INTEGRATION Enable KDE integration.
Currently it enables building of KWallet Password plugin,
which provides support for storing passwords in KWallet.
example:
$ export KDE_INTEGRATION="true"
GNOME_INTEGRATION Enable Gnome integration.
Currently it enables building of Gnome-Keyring Password plugin,
which provides support for storing passwords in Gnome-Keyring.
example:
$ export GNOME_INTEGRATION="true"
USE_LIBPATH By default, /usr/lib/ is used for libQupZilla and /usr/lib/qupzilla
for plugins.
You can change it by setting this define.
example:
$ export USE_LIBPATH="/usr/lib64"
NO_SYSTEM_DATAPATH By default, QupZilla is using /usr/share/qupzilla/ path
for storing themes and translations.
By setting this define, QupZilla will use path of execution.
(disabled by default)
example:
$ export NO_SYSTEM_DATAPATH="true"
QUPZILLA_PREFIX You can define different prefix.
QupZilla binary will then be moved to PREFIX/bin/, use
PREFIX/share/qupzilla/ as datadir, PREFIX/share/applications for
desktop launcher and PREFIX/share/pixmaps for icon.
(default prefix is "/usr")
example:
$ export QUPZILLA_PREFIX="/usr"
SHARE_FOLDER You can define the path of the share folder, i.e. /usr/share
QupZilla will then use SHARE_FOLDER/qupzilla as datadir,
SHARE_FOLDER/applications for desktop launcher and
SHARE_FOLDER/pixmaps for the icon. By default it is not defined
and files will be installed as described above.
(default share folder is "/usr/share")
example:
$ export SHARE_FOLDER="/usr/share"
DISABLE_DBUS Build without QtDBus module. Native desktop notifications
will be disabled.
example:
$ export DISABLE_DBUS="true"