GoldenDict is a feature-rich dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats (StarDict/Babylon/Lingvo/Dictd/AARD/MDict/SDict) and online dictionaries, featuring perfect article rendering with the complete markup, illustrations and other content retained, and allowing you to type in words without any accents or correct case.
This code has been run and tested on Windows 10/11, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X.
- Make, GCC, Git
- Qt framework. Minimum required version is 5.15
- Qt Creator IDE is recommended for development
- Various libraries on Linux (png, zlib, etc)
- On Mac and Windows all the libraries are already included in the repository
sudo apt-get install git pkg-config build-essential qt5-qmake \
libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libhunspell-dev x11proto-record-dev \
qtdeclarative5-dev libxtst-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev \
libao-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libtiff5-dev libeb16-dev \
libqt5svg5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qttools5-dev \
qttools5-dev-tools qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins
First, clone this repository, e.g.:
git clone https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.git
And then invoke qmake-qt5 and make:
cd goldendict && qmake-qt5 && make
brew install qt # or use official offline installer
qmake CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=zim_support CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS="x86_64 arm64"
make
make install
Alternatively, you might want to load goldendict.pro file from within Qt Creator, especially on Windows.
To add Chinese conversion support you need at first install libopencc-dev package:
sudo apt-get install libopencc-dev
Then pass "CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support" to qmake
qmake "CONFIG+=chinese_conversion_support"
To add Zim and Slob formats support you need at first install lzma-dev and zstd-dev packages:
sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev libzstd-dev
Then pass "CONFIG+=zim_support" to qmake
qmake "CONFIG+=zim_support"
If you have problem building with libtiff5-dev package, you can pass
"CONFIG+=no_extra_tiff_handler" to qmake in order to disable extra tiff support
(without such extra support some b/w tiff images will not be displayed):
qmake "CONFIG+=no_extra_tiff_handler"
If you have problem building with libeb-dev package, you can pass
"CONFIG+=no_epwing_support" to qmake in order to disable Epwing format support
qmake "CONFIG+=no_epwing_support"
If you have problem building with FFmpeg/libao (for example, Ubuntu older than 12.04), you can pass
"CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player" to qmake in order to disable FFmpeg+libao internal audio player back end:
qmake "CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player"
If you have problem building with Qt5 Multimedia or experience GStreamer run-time errors (for example, Ubuntu 14.04), you can pass
"CONFIG+=no_qtmultimedia_player" to qmake in order to disable Qt Multimedia internal audio player back end:
qmake "CONFIG+=no_qtmultimedia_player"
NB: All additional settings for qmake that you need must be combined in one qmake launch, for example:
qmake "CONFIG+=zim_support" "CONFIG+=no_extra_tiff_handler" "CONFIG+=no_ffmpeg_player"
Then, invoke make clean before make because the setting change:
make clean && make
the source code has offered precompile x64 windows libs on winlibs/lib/msvc. you can build your own version either.
To build with Visual Studio. check this how to build with visual studio
Installation is an optional step since the built binary can be used as-is without installation. But you can properly install via:
make install
NB: Don't do that on Windows!
You can uninstall via:
make uninstall
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ license, a copy of which can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.
Users looking for support should file an issue in the official GoldenDict issue tracker, or even better: submit a pull request if you have a fix available. General questions should be asked on the official GoldenDict forum.