Building Tui Widgets

(You can skip this section if you are using a prebuild Tui Widgets library, e.g. from your linux distribution)

Prerequisites

You need a working C++17 compiler, meson, ninja and an installation of QtCore.

For example on debian:

apt install build-essential git meson ninja-build pkg-config qt6-base-dev qt6-5compat-dev

Or for Qt 5:

apt install build-essential git meson ninja-build pkg-config qttools5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev

termpaint

You also need termpaint.

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

cd termpaint
meson setup _build -Dprefix=$HOME/opt/tuiwidgets-prefix
meson compile -C _build
meson install -C _build

Tui Widgets

This library supports Qt 5 and Qt 6, you need to choose the qt version at compile time via the -Dqt option to meson.

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

cd tuiwidgets
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/opt/tuiwidgets-prefix/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig meson setup _build -Dprefix=$HOME/opt/tuiwidgets-prefix -Dqt=qt6
meson compile -C _build
meson install -C _build

The library will install pkg-config .pc files for TuiWidgets (qt 5.x version) or TuiWidgetsQt6.