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@@ -33,18 +33,19 @@ Platforms we officially test our releases on are listed below. We only test on d ## External Dependencies The Swift repository includes some third party dependencies in the 3rdParty directory to easy development. Third party dependencies not included are listed below: * OpenSSL is required when building Swiften on Linux or Android * Python (2.5 <= version < 3) * Qt 5 and QtWebKit is required by Swift. Depending on platform, architecture, and compiler/IDE, you have the following options to fulfill this dependency: * download and install the [official binary Qt 5.5 release](http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.5/5.5.1/) if it is available for your platform/architecture/compiler * download and install the latest [official binary Qt 5.7 release](http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.7/) **and** download the *matching* [Qt WebKit Technology Preview release for Qt 5.7](https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases/) and copy/merge the folders with the matching folders of the previously installed Qt 5.7 installation + * Some features of Swift, such as unicode Emojis support, require QT 5.6 or newer. ## General Build Instructions The Swift projects use the SCons build system for build configuration and Build execution. SCons is one of the included third party dependencies. To build all Swift components simply run SCons. On Mac OS X and Linux you run the `./scons` command. On Windows you run the `scons.bat` command in a Visual Studio developer shell. On multi-processor systems, i.e. most desktop and server machines, you can use the `-j NUMBER_OF_PARALLEL_TASKS` flag, or pass the `max_jobs=1` to the `scons` command to speed up build time. The `max_jobs=1` argument will set the number of parallel tasks to the number of CPU cores available. Note that each parallel task increases the memory requirements for the overall build process. @@ -58,18 +59,19 @@ On multi-processor systems, i.e. most desktop and server machines, you can use t After installing Qt, simply run `./scons qt=/Users/username/Qt_installation_path/Qt/5.4.2/5.4/clang_64 Swift` to build Swift. Afterwards you can find a runnable app bundle at `Swift/QtUI/Swift.app`. ### Windows #### Prerequisites - Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express or later (C++11) - Windows SDK - Python (2.5 <= version < 3) - Qt Open Source Edition + - QT 5.6 or newer to support emojis. A binary release of Qt can be obtained from https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/. Make sure it matches the Visual Studio version you have installed. #### Building Swift Open a Developer Command Prompt. Depending on Windows version and Visual Studio version, this can be found in the **Visual C++ Programs group**, launch the **Visual C++ command prompt**, or search for **Developer Command Prompt for VS2015** in the Windows start menu in more recent versions of Windows. In the open command prompt add the **Qt installation bin folder** to the `PATH` environment variable, by running `set PATH=C:\path\to\qt\msvc2015\bin;%PATH%`. The Qt path is just an example; adjust it to your local installation. |