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# QTermWidget
A terminal emulator widget for Qt 5.
## Overview
QTermWidget is an opensource project originally based on KDE4 Konsole application,
but it took its own direction later.
The main goal of this project is to provide unicode-enabled, embeddable
Qt widget for using as a built-in console (or terminal emulation widget).
A terminal emulator widget for Qt 5.
# Installation
QTermWidget is an open-source project originally based on KDE4 Konsole application, but it took its own direction later.
The main goal of this project is to provide a unicode-enabled, embeddable Qt widget for using as a built-in console (or terminal emulation widget).
Requirements:
* Qt >= 5.4
* cmake >= 3.0
It is compatible with BSD, Linux and OS X.
Supported platforms:
* Linux
* BSD
* OS X
This project is licensed under the terms of the [GPLv2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html) or any later version. See the LICENSE file for the full text of the license.
Building
## Installation
1. `mkdir -p build && cd build`
2. `cmake <path/to/source>`
3. `make`
### Compiling sources
Run `make install` to install.
The only runtime dependency is qtbase ≥ 5.4.
In order to build CMake ≥ 3.0 is needed as well as optionally Git to pull latest VCS checkouts.
# License
Code configuration is handled by CMake. Building out of source is strongly recommended. CMake variable `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` will normally have to be set to `/usr`, depending on the way library paths are dealt with on 64bit systems variables like `CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR` may have to be set as well.
This project is licensed under the terms of the
[GPLv2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html) or any later version.
To build run `make`, to install `make install` which accepts variable `DESTDIR` as usual.
See the LICENSE file for the full text of the license.
### Binary packages
The library is provided by all major Linux distributions like Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE.
Just use the distributions' package managers to search for string `qtermwidget`.