[Windows] How to build Otter

2016-02-24, 15:07:16

Hi all

As in the title, can someone explain me (but not only me, this will become an useful guide for all users), step by step, how to compile Otter?

Thanks in advance

Re: [Windows] How to build Otter

Reply #1 – 2016-02-24, 21:37:14

@kily, the minimum that you need is Qt SDK which you can get here:
http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/

You will need to install components for Qt 5.5, if you don't want to install Visual Studio (recommended, Community version is good enough) then you will need to select version for MinGW and select one of the compilers too.
You will also need to select some more modules like Script and Location.

After that it should be matter of opening otter.pro in QtCreator and using Run action (Ctrl+R).

To get SSL support you will need to place OpenSSL libraries in folder containing otter-browser.exe (you can extract them from existing packages).

More advanced variant is to install CMake and open CMakeLists.txt in QtCreator instead.

Re: [Windows] How to build Otter

Reply #2 – 2016-02-26, 10:12:18

there're lot of Visual studio versions of QT ... what I've to chose?

thanks

Re: [Windows] How to build Otter

Reply #3 – 2016-03-21, 11:03:21

@kily, sorry for delay...
If it is still relevant, it should be of course the one that matches your Visual Studio version (I recommend 2013).