TupiTube Documentation

How to compile TupiTube Desk from source code (Windows 7 - 32 bit)

Warning: The official installer for Windows is only available from our repository. Avoid to download it from other sites.

1. Download the dependencies required to compile TupiTube Desk

2. Install the dependencies into the following paths:

Qt must be installed into C:\Qt-5.x
Libav must be installed into C:\libav
Git must be installed into the default path but ensuring its commands are available from the Windows console
Quazip source code must be uncompressed at C:\tupitube\sources\quazip-0.7

3. Ensure the following Qt paths are included in your PATH system variable:

This step is required to have access to the Qt commands from console. To verify this step, open a Windows terminal and type:

qmake -version

You should get an output similar to this:

C:\Users\me> qmake -version

  QMake version 3.0
  Using Qt version 5.3.2 in C:/Qt-5.3.2/5.3/mingw482_32/lib

4. Compile and install the Quazip library

From the Windows console run these commands:

cd C:\tupitube\sources\quazip-0.7
qmake -config release "LIBS+=C:\libav\bin\zlib1.dll" "PREFIX=C:\Quazip"
make
make install

5. Download TupiTube Desk source code

From the Windows console run these commands:

cd C:\tupitube\sources  
git clone https://github.com/xtingray/tupitube.desk.git

6. Compile the source code

From the Windows console run these commands:

cd C:\tupitube\sources\tupitube.desk
qmake -config release
make

7. Prepare the libraries required by TupiTube Desk

Create the path C:\tupitube\sources\qt5
Execute the script located at: C:\tupitube\sources\tupitube.desk\tools\win32\qt5.bat
Create the path C:\tupitube\sources\libav
Execute the script located at: C:\tupitube\sources\tupitube.desk\tools\win32\libav.bat

8. Install the binaries in your system

Execute the script located at: C:\tupitube\sources\tupitube.desk\tools\win32\copy.vbs
The installation path will be: C:\maefloresta

9. To run TupiTube Desk, execute the file: C:\maefloresta\bin\TupiTube.vbs