libkiwix/README.md

libkiwix

libkiwix contains the common code base for all kiwix ports.

Build kiwix-lib

Most of the compilation steps (including download and compilation of dependencies and other tools (kiwix-tools)) are handle by kiwix-build script. If you don't have any special need, we recommend you to use kiwix-build instead of doing all the steps yourself.

Dependencies:

You'll need the following dependencies to build libkiwix:

• icu
• libzim
• pugixml
• ctpp2
• xapian (optional) (>=1.4)
• meson build system (>=0.34)(and so, ninja, pkg-config, ...)

Once all dependencies are installed, you can compile kiwix-lib with:

$ cd kiwix-lib
$ mkdir build
$ meson . build
$ cd build
$ ninja
$ ninja install

By default, it will compile dynamic linked libraries. If you want statically linked libraries, you can add --default-library=static option to the meson command.

(You may need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH before running meson depending of where and how you've install dependencies) (Depending of you system, ninja may be called ninja-build)

Howto build kiwix-lib on Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS)

If you want to compile yourself kiwix-lib see the specific readme to compile kiwix-lib on Ubuntu 16.04.

Licensed as GPLv3 or later, see COPYING for more details.