Building QOwnNotes

Building from GitHub

You can also build QOwnNotes yourself from the source code.

Checkout the code of the last release directly from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes.git -b release
cd QOwnNotes
git submodule update --init

For debugging, it's easiest to use QtCreator. When downloading Qt Creator, you will also need the package qtwebsockets to build QOwnNotes with Qt6. If you build under Windows, you want to stick to MinGw 64-bit. On Linux, you most likely have a package for QtCreator in your repository.

Afterward open the project file src/QOwnNotes.pro and click on Build / Build Project QOwnNotes.

If you know what you are doing, you can also build QOwnNotes directly in your terminal:

cd src

# build binary translation files if you want another language than English
lrelease QOwnNotes.pro

# prepare build process and build the application
qmake
make

Please feel free to contribute source code to this project, make suggestions or report troubles on the QOwnNotes issues page.

Visit QOwnNotes on GitHub.

Source archive

You will find source archives of QOwnNotes on QOwnNotes source archive.

The source archives will be accessible like that:

https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases/download/v23.7.0/qownnotes-23.7.0.tar.xz

Building with nix

If you have the Nix package manager available you can just git-clone the source code, like explained above and build with:

# Get devenv if you don't have it already
nix-shell -p devenv

# Open a shell with all the tools you need
devenv shell

# Build the application
just nix-build

# Run the built application
just nix-run