Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. It's especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.
This repository contains a set of tools to help development or usage of kiwix.
Most of the compilation steps are handled by the kiwix-builder.py script.
This script has been tested of Fedora 23 and Ubuntu 16.10
Take care, the paragraphs are about the target platforms. If you want to build Kiwix for Android on a GNU/Linux system, you should follow the instructions of the "Android" paragraph.
Install pre-requisties in your distro, eg, in Debian based:
sudo apt install git cmake meson python3-virtualenv virtualenvwrapper zlib1g-dev libicu-dev aria2 libtool
Pretty simple once all dependencies are installed :
The archives and sources will be copied in your current working dir so I recommend you to create a working directory:
$ mkdir <MY_WORKING_DIR>
$ cd <MY_WOKRING_DIR>
Once ready, just run the script with the install dir as argument:
$ kiwix-builder.py <INSTALL_DIR>
The script will download and install all the needed dependencies and kiwix related repository.
At the end of the script you will found the binaries in <INSTALL_DIR>/bin.
As it is a dynamic linked binary, you will need to add the lib directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH :
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<INSTALL_DIR>/lib <INSTALL_DIR>/bin/kiwix-serve
To build a static binary simply add the --build_static option to the kiwix-build.py script :
$ kiwix-builder.py --build_static <INSTALL_DIR>
Notes: You cannot use the same working directory to build a dynamic and static.
Notes: At the end of the script, meson may raise a error when it install the kiwix-server binary. This is a meson bug and it has been fixed here (mesonbuild/meson#1240) but your meson version may not include this fix. However, the kiwix-server binary is valid and ready to use.
The script has not been tested on Mac OSX.
Please, if you have a Mac OSX, try to run the kiwix-builder script and report errors or, better, fixes :)
Cross compilation and strange stuff are to come.
If you wich to help, you're welcome.
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
IRC: #kiwix on irc.freenode.net
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You can use IRC web interface on http://chat.kiwix.org/
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