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Tres Finocchiaro edited this page Aug 5, 2024 · 36 revisions

Compatibility

  • ✅ 2.1 | ✅ 2.0 | ✅ 1.9 | ...

JDK

  • QZ Tray 3.0 - JDK21 or higher (Liberica OpenJDK21 recommended)
  • QZ Tray 2.2 - JDK11 or higher (Liberica OpenJDK11 HotSpot recommended)
  • QZ Tray 2.1 - JDK8 or higher (AdoptOpenJDK11 HotSpot recommended)
  • QZ Tray 2.0 - JDK7 or higher (AdoptOpenJDK11 HotSpot recommended)

Contents

Windows

  1. Install ⚠️JDK 7 or higher:

    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/

  2. Download and extract Apache Ant:

    https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

  3. Setup environment variables JAVA_HOME, PATH, etc:

    • Assume Ant is installed in c:\ant\. The following commands set up the environment: 
       set ANT_HOME=c:\ant
 set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.7.0_51
 set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

    http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#setup

  4. Install NSIS 3.0+:

    http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download

  5. Install git:

    https://git-scm.com/download/win

Mac

  1. Install command line tools for macOS (installation methods vary)

  2. Install ⚠️JDK 7 or higher via: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/

  3. Install homebrew via:

    /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

  4. Install brew dependencies via:

    brew install git ant makeself nsis

  5. If you prefer to use a system-installed version of Java, you can use brew install ant --ignore-dependencies

  6. Install git:

    https://git-scm.com/download/mac

Ubuntu

  1. Install AdoptOpenJDK11 via https://adoptopenjdk.net/installation.html#linux-pkg

    • Note: You can use OpenJDK 8+ via apt instead if desired

  2. Install remaining dependencies (ant, nsis, makeself) via:

    sudo apt-get install git ant nsis makeself

Fedora

  1. Install AdoptOpenJDK11 via https://adoptopenjdk.net/installation.html#linux-pkg

    • Note: You can use OpenJDK 8+ via yum instead if desired

  2. Install remaining dependencies (ant, nsis, makeself) via:

    sudo yum install git ant nsis makeself

Clone Source Code

  1. Clone the repository:

  • QZ Tray

    git clone https://github.com/qzind/tray

    Note: This will clone the source code for the default branch of the software. To clone a non-default branch, you would need to specify that branch name i.e. -b foo

Compile

  1. See separate compiling tutorial.
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