Currently Linux builds require Python 3.6 (but 3.7 seems to work fine as well), GNU make and Qt Linguist tools. Following packages should suffice on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install qttools5-dev-tools python3.6 make

Then, to install python dependencies and build the binary use:

make deps dist

Windows

Currently Windows builds require Python 3.6 installed system-wide and added to %PATH%.

To install python and cygwin dependencies and build everything use deploy\windows-build.bat batch script.

MacOS

Currently MacOS builds require Python 3.6, dmgbuild tool (pip3 install dmgbuild) and Qt SDK installed (just the "Qt > 5... > macOS" part in installer) with following added to $PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/Qt/5.11.1/clang_64/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:$PATH"

Then just install dependencies and build everything using:

make deps dmg

Development

Both build & runtime requirements are defined in requirements.txt file. In order to install these use the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To manage dynamic UI and translation binaries generation we use a very simple GNU make-based build system.

To simply build everything needed to run luftdaten-tool.py run:

make

To build and run use:

make run

To remove all build artifacts use:

make clean

All requirements are set up using wildcards, so, in theory, Makefile shouldn't need much changes in near future.

Translations

In order to rebuild *.ts files use:

make i18n-update