Theme and build instructions for the Nextcloud desktop client.
Based on https://github.com/owncloud/client/blob/master/doc/building.rst
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nextcloud-devs/client
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nextcloud-client
Run:
git submodule update --init --recursive
Run:
# If building on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev qt5-default libqt5webkit5-dev qt5keychain-dev libssl-dev
# All distributions
mkdir build-linux
cd build-linux
cmake -D OEM_THEME_DIR=$(realpath ../nextcloudtheme) ../client
make
sudo make install
Install required packages.
sudo apt-get install git libsqlite3-dev qt5-default libqt5webkit5-dev qt5keychain-dev libssl1.0-dev cmake build-essential libowncloudsync0
If you are using Debian 9 install libssl1.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev
If you are using Debian 8 install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Then:
git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/client_theming.git
cd client_theming
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build-linux
cd build-linux
cmake -D OEM_THEME_DIR=$(realpath ../nextcloudtheme) -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../client
make
sudo make install
Attention: When building make sure to use an old Core 2 Duo build machine running OS X 10.10. Otherwise the resulting binary won't work properly for users of an older device. Have at least 180 GB free disk space when compiling Qt. Make sure your user is named "builder".
- Install HomeBrew
brew install openssl wget cmake
wget https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/releases/download/1.14.0/Sparkle-1.14.0.tar.bz2
tar -xf Sparkle-1.14.0.tar.bz2
mv Sparkle.framework ~/Library/Frameworks/
- Install XCode 6.4 from http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_6.4/Xcode_6.4.dmg
- sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
- Generate Sparkle keys:
./bin/generate_keys
. Keep those, if you loose it you won't be able to deploy updates anymore. - Store the keys in
osx/
. Make sure to not make thedsa_priv.pem
publicly available. - Install http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/about.html
Because the desktop client comes with some custom patches you have to download the Qt 5.6.2 source and then apply all of them. Make sure to adjust with the login to the cloned client repository.
cd /tmp/
wget http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.6/5.6.2/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.6.2.tar.gz
tar -xf qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.6.2.tar.gz
cd /tmp/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.6.2/qtbase
git apply <client>/admin/qt/patches/qtbase/*.patch
cd ..
./configure -sdk macosx10.9
make -j2
sudo make -j1 install
sh osx/build.sh
The docker image contains the toolchain to build the windows binary. Build it:
docker build -t nextcloud-client-win32:<version> client/admin/win/docker/
docker run -v "$PWD:/home/user/" nextcloud-client-win32:2.2.2 /home/user/win/build.sh $(id -u)
When we build releases there are two additional cmake parameters to consider:
-DMIRALL_VERSION_SUFFIX=<STRING>
: for a generic suffix name such asbeta
orrc1
-DMIRALL_VERSION_BUILD=<INT>
: an internal build number. Should be strickly increasing. This allows update detection fromrc
tofinal
Note that this had mostly usage on Windows and OS X. On linux the package manager will take care of all this.