Compiling gImageReader

If you would like to compile gImageReader from source, follow these steps:

Linux (various distributions)

1. Make sure you have cmake and a C++ compiler supporting C++11 installed.

2. Install the development packages of the following required build dependencies ([Gtk], [Qt5] and [Qt4] indicate dependencies required for compiling the respective gImageReader interface):

   • tesseract (>=3.03.00, recommended 3.04.00 or newer)
   • sane
   • podofo
   • libjpeg
   • djvulibre
   • [Gtk] gtkmm
   • [Gtk] gtkspellmm (>=3.0.5)
   • [Gtk] gtksourceviewmm
   • [Gtk] cairomm
   • [Gtk] poppler-glib
   • [Gtk] json-glib
   • [Gtk] libxml++
   • [Qt5] qt5-qtbase
   • [Qt5] qtspell-qt5
   • [Qt5] poppler-qt5
   • [Qt5] quazip-qt5
   • [Qt4] qt4
   • [Qt4] qtspell-qt4
   • [Qt4] poppler-qt4
   • [Qt4] quazip-qt4

   For Debian based systems, the specific package names are those listed as Build-Dependsin the package control file.

   For Fedora based systems, the specific package names are those listed as BuildRequires in the package spec file.

3. Configure the build: from within the extracted source tarball or git clone folder, type

    $ mkdir build
    $ cd build
    $ cmake -DINTERFACE_TYPE=<type> ..
   

   where <type> is either gtk, qt5, qt4. The qt4 interface is only recommended if your distribution does not provide Qt5 >= 5.5.0 (Qt5 < 5.5.0 suffer from QTBUG-43562 which causes gImageReader to crash).

   Other standard cmake configuration options (such as CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) can also be specified, type ccmake .. inside the build folder to start the cmake configuration editor which lists all available configuration options.

4. Compilation: from within the created build directory, type

    make
   

5. Installing: from within the created build directory, type

    make install
   

6. Alternatively to installing the application with make install, it can also be run from within the build directory.

   • For the Qt4 and Qt5 variants, it is sufficient to type from within the build directory

        ./gimagereader-qt5 # or ./gimagereader-qt4
     

   • For the Gtk variant, one needs to ensure the path to the local glib schemas is added to XDG_DATA_DIRS when running the application:

        XDG_DATA_DIRS=$PWD:$XDG_DATA_DIRS ./gimagereader-gtk
     

Windows

The easiest way to compile gImageReader for Windows is by using the provided Docker image, performing the following steps from the root directory of the gImageReader source tree:

1. Build the image (only required once resp. periodically to update it):

   docker build -t gimagereader_buildenv packaging/win32
   

2. Compile gImageReader and build the installers:

   • 32-bit build:

     docker run -v $PWD:/workspace gimagereader_buildenv packaging/win32/makeinstaller.sh i686 qt5
     

   • 64-bit build:

     docker run -v $PWD:/workspace gimagereader_buildenv packaging/win32/makeinstaller.sh x86_64 qt5
     

3. The built installers can then be found inside the build trees:

   • 32-bit build: build/mingw32-qt5/gImageReader_$VERSION_qt5_i686.exe
   • 64-bit build: build/mingw64-qt5/gImageReader_$VERSION_qt5_x86_64.exe