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Build Instructions

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/marktext/marktext.git

Prerequisites

Before you can get started developing, you need set up your build environment:

  • Node.js >=v12.0.0 and yarn
  • Python v2.7 or >=v3.5 for node-gyp
  • C++ compiler and development tools
  • Build is supported on Linux, macOS and Windows

Additional development dependencies on Linux:

  • libx11 (dev)
  • libxkbfile (dev)
  • libsecret (dev)
  • libfontconfig (dev)

On Debian-based Linux: sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxkbfile-dev libsecret-1-dev libfontconfig-dev

On Red Hat-based Linux: sudo dnf install libx11-devel libxkbfile-devel libsecret-devel fontconfig-devel

Additional development dependencies on Windows:

  • Windows 10 SDK (not needed on Windows 10)
  • Visual Studio 2017 (prefered)

Let's build

  1. Go to marktext folder
  2. Install dependencies: yarn install or yarn install --frozen-lockfile
  3. Build Mark Text binaries and packages: yarn run build
  4. Mark Text binary is located under build folder

Copy the build app to applications folder, or if on Windows run the executable installer.

Important scripts

$ yarn run <script> # or npm run <script>
Script Description
build Build Mark Text binaries and packages for your OS
build:bin Build Mark Text binary for your OS
dev Build and run Mark Text in developer mode
lint Lint code style
test / unit Run unit tests

For more scripts please see package.json.