Clone this repository by running the following command:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.git
If you are on Windows, make sure that you are cloning in a location without spaces/special characters in the name.
Building is currently supported only on recent 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu releases. Please run scripts/setup-linux.sh as root, which will create 4 chroot environments and configure them for building properly (approx 2GB will need to be downloaded):
- Debian-wheezy i386 (should work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and later)
- Debian-wheezy amd64 (should work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and later)
- CentOS-5 i386 (should work on systems where older GLIBC is present)
- CentOS-5 amd64 (should work on systems where older GLIBC is present)
It will also setup a MinGW-w64 toolchain, which can cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux -- useful for running on Windows XP/Windows 2003, which are not supported by default when compiling with MSVC 2013.
- Install Visual Studio 2008 or later (2013 Express is recommended) or follow instructions for Windows SDK 7.1
- Do "Windows Update" to ensure that VC/SDK security patches are up-to-date
- Install latest ActivePerl from http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads
- Install latest Python 2.7 from http://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
- Install NSIS 2.46 from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download
- Make sure that you can run "git". If not, add it to the PATH or reinstall with option "Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt".
Switch to the checked-out folder and run the command scripts/build.py (or scripts\build.py if you are on Windows). This will present all the options which you can build. Select the appropriate target and all the requisite output will be generated in the static-build folder.