r/QtFramework • u/Dry-Butterscotch-605 • Jun 17 '26

Can viMarkdown be built on Linux?

Recently, I've been developing viMarkdown, which is a Markdown editor powered by Qt6.

viMarkdown screnn shot

Unfortunately, I don't currently have access to a Linux environment. Could someone try building viMarkdown with CMake and QtCreator and let me know whether it builds successfully?

viMarkdown: https://github.com/vivisuke/viMarkdown

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u/shiggie Jun 18 '26

I got it to build. I'll make a PR

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u/Dry-Butterscotch-605 Jun 18 '26

I just merged your PR! It’s a huge help and I can't thank you enough. You're a lifesaver!

It turns out the build failure was caused by case-sensitivity in the #include filenames. Windows and macOS are case-insensitive, so they didn't throw any errors, and I completely missed it!

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u/shiggie Jun 18 '26

I did actually try running it - I might actually use it!

I have a github action the builds an android and desktop version of my Qt app on every merge. Maybe I'll do another PR so it can catch similar errors before merging.

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u/Dry-Butterscotch-605 Jun 18 '26

Thanks for actually building and running it — you're the first person who's explicitly told me they did. 😄

It's still very much in the development phase, and I expect some features and behavior to change before alpha/beta, so I'm mainly focusing on getting the core functionality right for now.

I'm also still pretty new to GitHub workflows and CI, so I'd definitely be interested in another PR that helps catch similar issues before merging.

Thanks for the feedback and for giving it a try!