NixNote v2.1

Introduction

Nixnote is Evernote desktop client for Linux.

• Getting started
• New features in v2.1
• CHANGELOG
• Howto install & binary downloads
  • For Ubuntu users its recommended to install native package from NixNote PPA (although the AppImage version will also work).
  • For any linux distribution: download AppImage, mark as executable & run

Building from source

This app is mainly targeted at Linux, but it should compile quite easily on Windows and also macOS config is already present (see more detailed info bellow). As lot of refactoring has been made and I can't currently try anything else then linux, it is quite probable that minor adjustments are needed for the all non linux builds.

Linux - docker build

Recommended build for all but advanced users is using docker. This should work out of the box, no fiddling with any dependencies is needed. The created binary image should work on all ~recent distributions (at least in theory). Basic docker familiarity with docker is helpful.

More info in: DOCKER README

Linux - manual build

• Install development dependencies - look in content of this docker file to see example what is needed for Ubuntu 16.04. If you use another distribution/version, you need to find the right packages.

  • Install basic dependencies (recipe for Ubuntu, use similar for other distros)
    • sudo apt-get install -y git-core qt5-default build-essential
    • sudo apt-get install -y libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev libevent-dev
  • Install qt5 and poppler
    • sudo apt-get install -y libpoppler-qt5-dev
    • sudo apt-get install -y libqt5webkit5-dev
    • sudo apt-get install -y qttools5-dev-tools
    • sudo apt install -y qt5-qmake
  • Qt: you can either get Qt packages for your distribution or as alternative you can download qt5 directly from qt.io/download.
  • ~Optional
    • sudo apt-get install -y libopencv-dev libhunspell-dev
  • Tidy library
    • Alternative 1: Install from PPA:
      • sudo apt install tidy-dev
    • Alternative 2: Build tidy library from source:
      • clone source code switch to master branch
      • generate makefile

      cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DENABLE_DEBUG_SYMBOLS:BOOL=TRUE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIB:BOOL=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/usr

      • build

      make

      • install

      make install

      • library is now copied to ~/usr

• Get latest source from github...

  • I recommend using master branch. There maybe feature/* or release/* available, but this may not be stable. Anyway there isn't any guarantee for master branch either :-)

• Build

env PATH=/usr/bin:/bin PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/usr/lib/pkgconfig qmake NixNote21.pro MOC_DIR=./build RCC_DIR=./build OBJECTS_DIR=./build
make

If all went well, you should have a ./qmake-build-release/nixnote2 file.

• Optional: create AppImage package using linuxdeployqt

# Optional second step: if all went well you may try to create AppImage package
# may be a bit tricky - recommended for advanced users
./development/create-AppImage.sh

macOS

Disclaimer: macOS build was added from RJVB/nixnote2. I can't currently test if it works. It is quite probable that it will need minor adjustments.

mkdir build
cd build
qmake ../nixnote2/NixNote21.pro
make

Upon successful completion you will have the NixNote2.app bundle in the build directory.

Here, qmake is the one from Qt5. You will need to have Qt5 installed (qtbase, qtdeclarative and qtwebkit), as well as pkgconfig, poppler-qt5, hunspell and curl; dependencies can come from MacPorts, Fink or HomeBrew (I use MacPorts). It should be possible to use official Qt5 packages too but I haven't tested that.

The resulting application still depends MacPorts (or Fink or HomeBrew). To turn this into a standalone app bundle that can be deployed anywhere:

> cd build
> macdeployqt NixNote21.app [-no-strip]

As far as I can tell this will find and copy all required dependencies into the app bundle and modify them so they can be loaded from inside that bundle (wherever it ends up).

Windows

Should work on Windows, but minor tweaks will be needed to make it run. I currently have no time for it. Pull request is welcome. No sure its worth the effort, as there is quite decent official Evernote client for Windows.