merge develop

INSTALL.md

@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ from the source dir. For separate builds of YACReader or YACReaderLibrary,
 enter their respective subfolders and run the commands from there.
 
 The headless version of YACReaderLibrary is located in the YACReaderLibraryServer
-folder. To build it, enter the folder and run the steps as described above.
+folder. To build it, enter the folder and run the commands described above.
 
 
 ## Build dependencies:
 
-- Qt >= 5.3 with the following modules:
+- Qt >= 5.6 with the following modules:
 	- declarative
 	- quickcontrols
 	- sql
@@ -26,22 +26,21 @@ folder. To build it, enter the folder and run the steps as described above.
 	- opengl
 	- sql-sqlite
 	- network
-
 - A pdf rendering backend (optional, see below)
 - qrencode (optional)
 - glu
 - (lib)unarr (see below)
 
-Please note that not all of these dependencies are needed at build time.
+Not all dependencies are needed at build time. For example the qml components in
-A good example for this is YACReaderLibrary's GridView mode which will
+YACReaderLibrary (GridView, InfoView) will only show a white page if the
-silently fail and only show a white page if the proper qml modules
+required qml modules (declarative, quickcontrols) are missing.
-(declarative, quickcontrols) are missing.
+This can also happen if these dependencies are too old (i.e Qt < 5.6 is used).
 
 ## Backends
 
 ### Decompression
 
-YACReader uses [(lib)unarr](https://github.com/selmf/unarr) for comic book
+YACReader uses [(lib)unarr](https://github.com/selmf/unarr) for comic book archive
 decompression. Most Linux distributions don't ship this library yet, so you will
 probably have to build it yourself.
 
@@ -56,9 +55,9 @@ Starting with version 9.0.0 YACReader supports the following pdf render engines:
 - poppler (Linux/Unix default)
 - pdfium (default for Windows and MacOS)
 - pdfkit (MacOS only)
-- no_pdf (no pdf support)
+- no_pdf (disable pdf support)
 
-To override the default for a given platform add CONFIG+=[pdfbackend] as an options
+To override the default for a given platform add CONFIG+=[pdfbackend] as an option
 when running qmake.
 
 While the Poppler backend is well tested and has been the standard for YACReader

config.pri

@@ -11,12 +11,25 @@ QT_VER_MIN = $$member(QT_VERSION, 1)
 lessThan(QT_VER_MAJ, 5) {
 error(YACReader requires Qt 5 or newer but Qt $$[QT_VERSION] was detected.)
   }
+lessThan(QT_VER_MIN, 6) {
+  warning ("Qt < 5.6 detected. Compilation will probably work, but some qml based components in YACReaderLibrary (GridView, InfoView) will fail at runtime.")
+  }
 lessThan(QT_VER_MIN, 4):!CONFIG(no_opengl) {
   CONFIG += legacy_gl_widget
-  message ("Qt < 5.4 detected. Using QGLWidget for coverflow.")
+  warning ("Qt < 5.4 detected. Using QGLWidget for coverflow.")
+  warning ("QGLWidget based coverflow is scheduled for removal.")
   }
 lessThan(QT_VER_MIN, 3) {
-  error ("You need at least Qt 5.3 to build YACReader or YACReaderLibrary")
+  error ("You need at least Qt 5.3 to compile YACReader or YACReaderLibrary.")
+  }
+
+# Disable coverflow for arm targets
+isEmpty(QMAKE_TARGET.arch) {
+  QMAKE_TARGET.arch = $$QMAKE_HOST.arch
+}
+contains(QMAKE_TARGET.arch, arm.*) {
+  message("Building for ARM architecture. Disabling OpenGL coverflow ...")
+  CONFIG += no_opengl
 }
 
 # build without opengl widget support
@@ -24,15 +37,10 @@ CONFIG(no_opengl) {
   DEFINES += NO_OPENGL
 }
 
-#default values for decompression backends
+# default value for comic archive decompression backend
 !CONFIG(unarr):!CONFIG(7zip) {
-  unix {
   CONFIG += unarr
 }
-  win32 {
-    CONFIG += unarr
-  }
-}
 
 # default values for pdf render backend
 win32:!CONFIG(poppler):!CONFIG(pdfium):!CONFIG(no_pdf) {