Compiling RSS Guard

RSS Guard is a C++ application. All common build instructions can be found at the top of CMakeLists.txt.

If you want a practical reference for the currently maintained CI builds, look at resources/scripts/github-actions/. Those scripts show how the official Windows, Linux, and macOS packages are assembled in GitHub Actions.

Article And Web Viewer Backend

RSS Guard can be built with one of two article/web viewer backends:

  • WEB_ARTICLE_VIEWER_WEBENGINE=ON - builds the Qt WebEngine-based viewer. This is the most browser-like and feature-complete option.

  • WEB_ARTICLE_VIEWER_WEBENGINE=OFF - builds the QTextBrowser-based viewer. This is lighter and simpler, but it intentionally lacks some browser features.

Official CI binaries include the selected viewer type in their file names:

  • web means the Qt WebEngine viewer is used.

  • text means the QTextBrowser viewer is used.

For example, a Windows package name can contain web-qt6-win10 or text-qt6-win10, and a Linux AppImage can contain web-qt6-linux64 or text-qt6-linux64.

Warning

Note that on macOS, in some cases, you have to self-sign the application via the codesign utility to make it run.