[Tutorial] Setting up a development environment

This tutorial will guide you through the installation of the tools needed to work on MellowPlayer, it is meant for both developers and non developers.

• Install the needed tools
  • GNU/Linux
  • Windows
• Compile and run

Install the needed tools

General instructions

Download and install the latest Qt SDK for your platform

GNU/Linux

In addition to Qt, ou need gcc >= 5 and libnotify development package.

Windows

To use QtWebEngine, you need to compile MellowPlayer with MSVC 2015. You can get it by installing Visual Studio Community 2015.

Compile and run MellowPlayer

• Open QtCreator
• Open CMakeLists.txt from QtCreator (Open Project).
• Build the application and make sure you can run it from the IDE before you start coding.
• Open a terminal at the root of the source directory (you can do this right from within QtCreator):

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