Sigil 0.7.4 Released

[mr_nihilism]

To all Sigil wizards involved I say thanks.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by weberr

I will stay my current version as long as you've chosen to go to the dark side and require me to download and install such useless crap first.

Fix it or go your own way!

Did I miss something? WTF are you on about?

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by weberr

Have enjoyed using and donating to Sigil development for several years. Nothing else like it anywhere. But my upgrades have come to a screeching halt. I will stay my current version as long as you've chosen to go to the dark side and require me to download and install such useless crap first.

Fix it or go your own way!

I don't understand. What is the problem?

Sigil is built using QT 5. For some reason, the QT 5 version used by the previous Sigil would not compile on OSX, so it was not possible to make a Sigil version for OSX. Now, QT 5.2 beta 1 seems to compile on OSX again, so a new Sigil for OSX is possible again.

user_none only says he has not tested it on Mavericks (yet), but that it should work.

You don't need to go and download/install QT yourself first, as far as I know. I never had to.

[Tired 'N Grumpy]

very cool, tyvm!
TnG

[dmapr]

Originally Posted by user_none

I don't use Visual Studio to build. Microsoft provides the compiler as a stand alone package for free. That's what I use.

Qt does have precompiled Windows binaries now but I can't use them (or may not be able to). The issue is that I use the free compiler Microsoft provides. It's part of the Windows SDK. The Windows 7 SDK (which I'm using because I have Windows 7) comes with VC++ 2010. Qt has 32 bit binaries for use with VC++ 2010. The 64 bit builds are for VC++ 2012 which is part of the Windows 8 SDK. I haven't investigated if the Windows 8 SDK will install and work on Windows 7. Other than the time it takes to build Sigil twice, that's the main road block.

I have built (downloaded the trial version of VS 2012) the 0.7.3 binary successfully on Windows 7. Since my trial has since expired, I haven't built the 0.7.4 yet, but I will when I get my hands on the VS 2012 again The build time on my 3-year old laptop (once I've downloaded and set up all the tools) was no more than 10 minutes.

Originally Posted by mrmikel

I have tried using 64 bit and 32 bit versions of Sigil. I couldn't really determine any difference. There would be more difference with a program that was able to use more than one core, but that adds yet another layer of complication.

The only difference I see is that for some reason the 32-bit version doesn't register itself in the context menu (can't right-click epub and choose open with Sigil). It may very well be that my Windows registry is screwed up, but the 64-bit version works just fine.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

I don't understand. What is the problem?

Sigil is built using QT 5. For some reason, the QT 5 version used by the previous Sigil would not compile on OSX, so it was not possible to make a Sigil version for OSX. Now, QT 5.2 beta 1 seems to compile on OSX again, so a new Sigil for OSX is possible again.

user_none only says he has not tested it on Mavericks (yet), but that it should work.

You don't need to go and download/install QT yourself first, as far as I know. I never had to.

Someone else said 0.7.4 does run under Mavericks.

For the grumpy person complaining about nothing, QT is installed as part of Sigil. The version of sigil you are using now has QT installed. All that's happening is a new version of QT is being installed that will work with Mavericks. But you probably would be best uninstalling Sigil before reinstalling just to make sure you get the newer version of QT installed.

[Moonraker]

Thank you. It's working well on my Windows 7. It's now nigh on perfect for me.

[dynabook]

Works for me on my new OS X Mavericks install and fixes a bug where closing Sigil from the File menu caused it to crash.

Thanks John. Great work. I hope the QT 5.2 final release doesn't cause any issues.
--MH

[Rob Ireton]

Here's how I installed to /usr/local/ on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit:

~$ sudo -i
~# apt-get install build-essential cmake libdrm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
~# mkdir -p /tmp/sigil
~# cd /tmp/sigil
/tmp/sigil# wget https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.1/5.1.1/qt-linux-opensource-5.1.1-x86_64-offline.run
/tmp/sigil# chmod +x qt-linux-opensource-5.1.1-x86_64-offline.run
/tmp/sigil# ./qt-linux-opensource-5.1.1-x86_64-offline.run
/tmp/sigil# mkdir -p /usr/local/src/sigil-0.7.4
/tmp/sigil# wget https://sigil.googlecode.com/files/Sigil-0.7.4-Code.zip
/tmp/sigil# unzip -d /usr/local/src/sigil-0.7.4 Sigil-0.7.4-Code.zip
/tmp/sigil# cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/gcc_64/lib/cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DFORCE_BUNDLED_COPIES=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH=1 /usr/local/src/sigil-0.7.4
/tmp/sigil# make install
/tmp/sigil# if [ ! -e /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list ]; then echo "[Default Applications]" >/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list; fi
/tmp/sigil# echo "application/epub+zip=sigil.desktop" >>/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
/tmp/sigil# cd ~
~# rm -rf /tmp/sigil
~# exit

The -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH=1 switch to cmake is to keep the path to the Qt libraries from being stripped out of the installed binary.

The bit with defaults.list is to make Sigil the default application for epub files.

[signum]

Thanks for the ubuntu script. I'll add a teeny little suggestion to the "make install" step: tell make to use all your cores via "make -j 2 install", for example, if you have two cores. Larger numbers will work, too, up to when it starts thrashing. It's kinda fun to watch the progress in another window with the "top" command and see two cores running at 80% each.

[paxmark1]

In re: Ubuntu code. Appreciate the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_ stuff. I floundered on an install of 7.3 to 32 bit Debian Testing. Has QT5.1.1 - but no luck. Will try later.

FOR DEBIAN STABLE. I removed the old Qt5.02 from /opt and sigil 7.2 from /usr/local I followed as per above and I can state that

SIGIL 7.4 compiles on DEBIAN STABLE and looks to run well.

Thanks.

[eschwartz]

Is there any reason to upgrade if I have 0.7.3 on Ubuntu, or is this just for OSX support?

In other words, what exactly changed in this update?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Is there any reason to upgrade if I have 0.7.3 on Ubuntu, or is this just for OSX support?

In other words, what exactly changed in this update?

Yes, you should install 0.7.4. But first uninstall 0.7.3. Don't install on top of.

Originally Posted by user_none

This is a small maintenance release of Sigil. Books with an invalid doctype should open as they did in version prior to 0.7.3. Also, this release has a build for OS X using Qt 5.2.0 Beta 1. This release should support Mavericks though it has not been tested on Mavericks.

[DiapDealer]

Is there any reason to upgrade if I have 0.7.3 on Ubuntu, or is this just for OSX support?

If you have issues with documents/epubs that worked fine pre-0.7.3 giving you warnings about being malformed, then you might want to upgrade. If you work on a lot of calibre-generated epubs, you may want to upgrade. But if you notice no issues with v0.7.3 in your normal workflow, then there's no real pressing reason to upgrade. Other than any changes/bugfixes brought by Qt5.1.1 (or 5.2-beta), the changes to Sigil itself are quite trivial. Mainly, when opening a file, any unicode non-breaking space characters are converted to the numeric entity (#160) instead of the named entity (nbsp). That way it won't break documents that didn't have (or need) a doctype. All of the handful of changes have to do with that.

If you don't really use unicode characters or entities (or all of your (x)html files already have the right doctype declaration), there's probably no real advantage to be gained. Nor any harm, for that matter.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Rob Ireton

Here's how I installed to /usr/local/ on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit:

~$ sudo -i
~# apt-get install build-essential cmake libdrm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
~# mkdir -p /tmp/sigil
~# cd /tmp/sigil
/tmp/sigil# wget https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.1/5.1.1/qt-linux-opensource-5.1.1-x86_64-offline.run
/tmp/sigil# chmod +x qt-linux-opensource-5.1.1-x86_64-offline.run
/tmp/sigil# ./qt-linux-opensource-5.1.1-x86_64-offline.run
/tmp/sigil# mkdir -p /usr/local/src/sigil-0.7.4
/tmp/sigil# wget https://sigil.googlecode.com/files/Sigil-0.7.4-Code.zip
/tmp/sigil# unzip -d /usr/local/src/sigil-0.7.4 Sigil-0.7.4-Code.zip
/tmp/sigil# cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/gcc_64/lib/cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DFORCE_BUNDLED_COPIES=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH=1 /usr/local/src/sigil-0.7.4
/tmp/sigil# make install
/tmp/sigil# if [ ! -e /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list ]; then echo "[Default Applications]" >/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list; fi
/tmp/sigil# echo "application/epub+zip=sigil.desktop" >>/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
/tmp/sigil# cd ~
~# rm -rf /tmp/sigil
~# exit

The -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH=1 switch to cmake is to keep the path to the Qt libraries from being stripped out of the installed binary.

The bit with defaults.list is to make Sigil the default application for epub files.

Thanks for this!

I had been wondering how to "build from source" in ubuntu. The instructions in Sigil's site are not apropriate for linux newbies, and I was prepared for a long and probably unsuccessful attempt at doing it myself when your post saved my day.

Am I mistaken in thinking that I now have a development environment? I mean, do I have all it takes to look around the code?

Thanks again and karma for you!