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Building Instruction

Prerequisites​

1. CMake​

QCefView project is managed with CMake, thus you need to install CMake first. The minimum supported CMake version is 3.19.1, but the latest version is recommended.

2. Qt​

QCefView is based on Qt framework，both Qt 5.x or 6.x are supported. After installation, please add the environment variable QTDIR to point to the Qt location, for example:

On Windows:

set QTDIR=C:\Qt\6.2.2\msvc2019_64

On macOS:

export QTDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.4.1/clang_64

On Linux:

export QTDIR=/usr/share/Qt/6.2.2/gcc_64

Build​

Just check out the repo from https://github.com/CefView/QCefView, then init the submodule. This repo depends on the submodule https://github.com/CefView/CefViewCore.

You can clone the code using the following git command:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/CefView/QCefView.git

Windows​

# Generate VS projects
generate-win-x86_64.bat

# Build from cmake
cmake --build .build/windows.x86_64

Find the project file in folder .build /windows.x86_64, you can also open the project with Visual Studio and build it.

macOS​

# Generate Xcode project
./generate-mac-x86_64.sh

# Build from cmake 
cmake --build .build/macos.x86_64

Find the project file in folder .build /macos.x86_64, you can also open the project with Xcode and build it.

Linux​

# Generate Unix Make file project
./generate-linux-x86_64.sh

# Build from cmake 
cmake --build .build/linux.x86_64

On Linux platform, Qt Creator is recommended as the IDE.