Build VNote

You need Qt 5.9 and above to build VNote from source.

Get the Source Code of VNote

VNote's source code is available on Github. You could download the ZIP archive of the code. Please be aware of that VNote depends on some submodules, so you should also download the source codes of these modules.

The recommended way is using git like this:

git clone https://github.com/tamlok/vnote.git vnote.git
cd vnote.git
git submodule update --init

Get Qt 5.9

You could get the standalone Qt SDK from Qt Downloads. For users in China, you could speed up the download via the TUNA Mirrors.

Windows

On Windows, you need Visual Studio 2015 or above to compile VNote.

Open Qt Creator and open vnote.git\VNote.pro as project. Now you are ready to tune and compile VNote!

Linux

In Ubuntu, you could get Qt 5.9 from PPA like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt591-trusty -y
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get -y install qt59base qt59webengine
sudo apt-get -y install qt59webchannel qt59svg qt59location qt59tools qt59translations
source /opt/qt*/bin/qt*-env.sh

Then compile and install VNote like this:

cd vnote.git
mkdir build
cd build
qmake ../VNote.pro
make
sudo make install

Fcitx

If you use Fcitx as the input method, you need to copy the missing library libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so to Qt's plugin directory.

To find the place of libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so, you could execute:

fcitx-diagnose | grep libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so

If there is no such lib, you may need to install and configure Fcitx for Qt5 correctly before continue.

Then you need to copy the lib to Qt's plugin directory:

<path_to_Qt_installation_directory>/5.9.3/gcc_64/plugins/platforminputcontexts/

OpenSSL

VNote needs openSSL 1.0 for networking. To verify if it has been setup correctly, you could check for updates in the Help menu of VNote. If VNote fails to check for updates, then you need to copy libraries of openSSL to Qt's library directory.

After the installation of openSSL, you could find two lib files:

/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0

Copy these two files to Qt's library directory:

<path_to_Qt_installation_directory>/5.9.3/gcc_64/lib/

In Qt's library directory, create symlinks for these two files:

ln -s libcrypto.so.1.0.0 libcrypto.so
ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0 libssl.so

MacOS

If you prefer command line on macOS, you could follow these steps.

Install Xcode and Homebrew;
Install Qt 5.9.1 via Homebrew:
```
brew install qt@5.9.1
```

In the project directory, create build_macos.sh like this:

QTDIR="/usr/local/opt/qt@5.9.1"
PATH="$QTDIR/bin:$PATH"
LDFLAGS=-L$QTDIR/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I$QTDIR/include

mkdir -p build
cd build
qmake -v
qmake CONFIG-=debug CONFIG+=release ../VNote.pro
make -j2

Make build_macos.sh executable and run it:

chmod +x build_macos.sh
./build_macos.sh

Now you got the bundle path/to/project/build/src/VNote.app.

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