ProtonMail Import-Export Qt interface

Import-Export uses Qt framework for creating appealing graphical user interface. Package therecipe/qt is used to implement Qt into Go.

For developers

The GUI is designed inside QML files. Communication with backend is done via frontend.go. The API documentation is done via go-doc.

Setup

• if you don't have the system wide go-1.8.1 download, install localy (e.g. ~/build/go-1.8.1) and setup:

    export GOROOT=~/build/go-1.8.1/go
    export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
  

• go to your working directory and export $GOPATH

    export GOPATH=`Pwd`
    mkdir -p $GOPATH/bin
    export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
  

• if you dont have system wide Qt-5.8.0 download, install locally (e.g. ~/build/qt/qt-5.8.0) and setup:

    export QT_DIR=~/build/qt/qt-5.8.0
    export PATH=$QT_DIR/5.8/gcc_64/bin:$PATH
  

• Go-Qt setup (installation is system dependent see therecipe/qt/README for details)

    go get -u -v github.com/therecipe/qt/cmd/...
    $GOPATH/bin/qtsetup
  

Compile

• it is necessary to compile the Qt-C++ with go for resources and meta-objects

    make -f Makefile.local
  

• FIXME the rcc file is implicitly generated with package main. This needs to be changed to package qtie manually

• check that user interface is working

    make -f Makefile.local test
  

Test

    make -f Makefile.local qmlpreview

Deploy

• before compilation of Import-Export it is necessary to run compilation of Qt-C++ part (done in makefile)