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I would like to use scintilla on a Qt project, but I don't know how to start, do I have to include the source files? or is there some library that I can reference?

The only installation examples I have found are for PyQt but I'm using c++ on Linux.

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QScintilla is a library derived from Scintilla to use with Qt. This library can be downloaded from https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/qscintilla/download.

To use this library you need to build and install first. As you use Linux, the building process is

cd Qt4Qt5
qmake
make
make install

Note:

  1. The directory Qt4Qt5 is inside the uncompressed QScintilla directory.
  2. Make sure Qt binary path is in your Linux PATH variable.

To use QScintilla in your project, in your .pro file just add the following line.

CONFIG += qscintilla2

The library comes with an example. To build the example use the following commands in your bash.

 cd example-Qt4Qt5
 qmake
 make
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