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Build status: [](https://travis-ci.org/kiwix/kiwix-build)
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Kiwix is an offline reader for web content. It's especially thought to
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make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the content
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of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open
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format with additional meta-data.
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This repository contains advanced tools to (cross-)compile easily
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Kiwix softwares and library and deploy them. They have been tested on
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Fedora 23 and Ubuntu 16.10.
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# Prerequesites
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You will need a recent version of `meson` (0.34) and `ninja` (1.6) If
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your distribution provides a recent enough versions for them, just
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install them with your package manager. Continue to read the
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instructions otherwise.
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Before anything else you need to install Python3 related tools. On Debian
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based systems:
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```
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$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip virtualenv
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```
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Create a virtual environment to install python module in it instead
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of modifying the system.
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```
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$ virtualenv -p python3 ./ # Create virtualenv
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$ source bin/activate # Activate the virtualenv
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```
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Then, download and install kiwix-build and its dependencies:
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```
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$ git clone git://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build.git
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$ cd kiwix-build
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$ pip install .
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$ hash -r # Refresh bash paths
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```
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If your distribution doesn't provide ninja version > 1.6 you can get it
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this way :
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```
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$ wget https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v1.8.2/ninja-linux.zip
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$ unzip ninja-linux.zip ninja -d $HOME/bin
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```
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# Compilation
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The compilation is handled by the `kiwix-build` command. It will compile
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everything. If you are using a supported platform (Redhat or Debian
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based) it will install missing packages using `sudo`. You can get
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`kiwix-build` usage like this:
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```
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$ kiwix-build --help
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```
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## Target
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You may want to compile a specific target so you will have to specify it on the
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command line :
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```
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$ kiwix-build kiwix-lib # will build kiwix-build and its dependencies
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$ kiwix-build zim-tools # will build zim-tools and its dependencies
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```
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By default, `kiwix-build` will build `kiwix-tools` .
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## Target platform
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By default, `kiwix-build` will build everything for the current (native)
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platform using dynamic linkage (`native_dyn`).
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But you can select another target platform using the option
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`--target-platform`. For now, there is ten different supported
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platforms :
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- native_dyn
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- native_static
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- win32_dyn
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- win32_static
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- android_arm
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- android_arm64
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- android_mips
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- android_mips64
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- android_x86
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- android_x86_64
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So, if you want to compile `kiwix-tools` for win32 using static linkage:
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```
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$ kiwix-build --target-platform win32_dyn
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```
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Or, android apk for android_arm :
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```
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$ kiwix-build --target-platform android_arm kiwix-android
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```
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# Outputs
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Kiwix-build.py will create several directories:
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- `ARCHIVES`: All the downloaded archives go there.
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- `SOURCES`: All the sources (extracted from archives and patched) go there.
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- `BUILD_<target_platform>`: All the build files go there.
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- `BUILD_<target_platform>/INSTALL`: The installed files go there.
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- `BUILD_<target_platform>/LOGS`: The logs files of the build.
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If you want to install all those directories elsewhere, you can pass the
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`--working-dir` option to `kiwix-build`:
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