Reddit Desktop

Reddit Desktop is a desktop client for reddit.

To download the latest release for your OS, please visit the releases page.

For Windows, download the .msi executable, which will provide you with a package, ready to be installed.

For Linux, download the *-debian.deb package for Debian based distributions or the *-fedora.rpm package for Fedora, and install them with your package manager (sudo apt install <deb file> or sudo dnf install <rpm file>).

For Fedora you will also need to install a repository that provides libmpv, such as rpmfusion. For example:

dnf install -yq \
    http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
    http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm && \
    rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-latest && \
    rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-latest

If you would rather run the container image (docker or podman), download the reddit_desktop_runtime.tar.gz file from the releases page. Load it for your container (e.g. podman load -i reddit_desktop_runtime.tar.gz) then run it with

mkdir -p ~/.config/reddit_desktop

podman run --rm -v ~/.config/reddit_desktop:/root/.config/reddit_desktop \
        -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix --security-opt=label=type:container_runtime_t \
         -e DISPLAY -v /run/user/$(id -u)/:/run/user/0/   -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0 \
        -e PULSE_SERVER=/run/user/0/pulse/native \
        --ipc host \
        localhost/reddit_desktop_runtime

The docker/run_container.sh script provides an example.

Screenshots

Build it from source

Prerequisites

• Git
• A C++20 capable compiler (does not need to be fully compliant)
• Cmake 3.18+
• VcPkg
• LibMPV

Setup your development environment

• Windows
  • Install VS2019 (can be Community edition) with the C++ Support package
  • Install prerequisites (git, cmake, ninja, wixtoolset, powershell-core)
  • One simple powershell script to install everything via Chocolatey:

    Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
    
    choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation
    choco install 7zip.install
    choco install git.install
    choco install cmake.install --installargs 'ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH=System'
    choco install ninja 
    choco install wixtoolset 
    choco install powershell-core
    

  • Install vcpkg (assuming the vcpkg folder will be E:\projects\vcpkg. Change as desired.)

    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path E:\projects\
    cd E:\projects\
    git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
    cd vcpkg
    .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
    

  • Install libmpv for windows prebuilt DLL, and youtube-dl.exe

    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path E:\projects\mpv
    cd E:\projects\mpv
    
    #Download latest youtube-dl.exe release
    $youtube_dl_latest_uri = "https://api.github.com/repos/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest"
    $latestYoutubeDlRelease = Invoke-RestMethod $youtube_dl_latest_uri
    $latestYoutubeDlReleaseAssets = $latestYoutubeDlRelease.assets
    $latestYoutubeExeAsset = $latestYoutubeDlReleaseAssets | where-object {$_.name -EQ "youtube-dl.exe" }
    Invoke-WebRequest $latestYoutubeExeAsset.browser_download_url -OutFile "$pwd\$($latestYoutubeExeAsset.name)"
    
    # Download the latest release from libmpv folder, manually
    Start-Process https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/libmpv/
    
    

    Download mpv-dev-x86_64-.7z from that sourceforge page. Extract it somewhere (E:\projects\mpv). Then in that mpv folder, from a VS2019 Developer command prompt run : lib /dev:mpv.def /machine:x64 /out:mpv.lib
  • Done with windows. Wasn't that hard now, was it?
• Linux Debian 11 (and Debian based distributions)

  apt install -y dpkg build-essential cmake gcc g++ git \
              libmpv-dev ca-certificates curl zip unzip tar libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev \
              pkg-config generate-ninja ninja-build libxmu-dev libxi-dev libgl-dev
  

• Linux Fedora (34+)

  dnf install -yq \
  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm && \
  rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-latest && \
  rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-latest
  

  dnf -yq install cmake gcc g++ pkgconf-pkg-config git \
      tar rpm-build ninja-build perl-FindBin perl-English perl-File-Compare \
      ibus-devel libXmu-devel libXi-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
      mpv-libs-devel
  

• FreeBSD (13.2)

  pkg install llvm clang boost-all glfw glew gumbo libfmt spdlog stb freetype2 openssl \
              git cmake ninja sqlite3 pkgconf mpv uriparser libvdpau libvdpau-va-gl mesa-gallium-vdpau \
              libva-vdpau-driver mesa-dri
  

Actually building the executable

cd <projects folder>

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/sgiurgiu/reddit_desktop.git

• Linux

  mkdir build && cd build

  cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<vcpkg folder>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF -DENABLE_M4DC=ON -DENABLE_CMARK=OFF <git cloned folder>

  ninja

  And now run it from that folder with src/reddit_desktop

• Windows

    cmake -B . -S <git cloned folder> -G Ninja -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<vcpkg folder>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows-static -DENABLE_TESTS=False -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCPACK_GENERATOR=WIX -DLIBMPV_DIR="<libmpv folder>" -DLIBMPV_INCLUDE="<libmpv include folder>" -DYOUTUBE_DL="<youtube-dl.exe path>"
    cmake --build .
  

The scripts that build it on windows and linux can be found in the scripts folder, as well in the docker folder. Those scripts are the authority when it comes to the process of building a package for a particular OS should this readme not be updated.

• FreeBSD mkdir build && cd build

  cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF -DENABLE_M4DC=ON -DENABLE_CMARK=OFF <git cloned folder>

  make

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This application uses the Dear ImGui library for its UI. Big thanks to ocornut and all the other contributors for their amazing work.