About TeXworks

TeXworks is an environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents,
with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean,
simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.

TeXworks is inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X,
which has made quality typesetting through TeX accessible to a wider community
of users, without a technical or intimidating face. The goal of TeXworks is to
deliver a similarly integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other
platforms, especially GNU/Linux and Windows.

Further Information

If you find any bugs/problems or have any recommendations, don't hesitate to
stop by the development webpage, send a mail to the mailing list (preferably via
the "Help > Email to mailing list" menu item which automatically includes some
debug information), or file a bug report.

• Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texworks/
• Development: https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks
• Bugs: https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/issues
• Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texworks

License

TeXworks is copyright (C) 2007-2019 by Jonathan Kew, Stefan Löffler, and Charlie
Sharpsteen. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
See the file COPYING for details.

The SyncTeX code is copyright (c) 2008-2017 by Jérôme Laurens; see
modules/synctex/synctex_parser.c for license details.

Building TeXworks

Notes by Jonathan Kew, updated 2011-03-20, 2015-03-29, 2019-03-21 by Stefan
Löffler

To build TeXworks from source, you will need to install developer packages (or
equivalent) for:

• Qt (5.0 or later)
  https://www.qt.io/download/

• Poppler (using the latest stable release is strongly recommended, although
  versions as old as the 0.24 series should still work)
  https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

• Hunspell (release 1.2.8 or later is recommended; earlier 1.2.x releases may
  be used, although support for some non-Latin-script languages may be
  lacking)
  https://hunspell.github.io/

along with their dependencies (such as Freetype, fontconfig, zlib, etc.) If you
also want to build the scripting plugins (optional), you additionally need
development packages for Lua and/or Python. Details will depend on your
platform. On Linux or similar systems, your package manager can probably provide
all these.

Once everything is set up, create a folder for building (e.g., "build") and run
CMake in it to create a Makefile or Xcode project. Finally, run make or use
Xcode to build the application.

The current TeXworks prototype has been successfully built with

• Xcode (using gcc 4) on Mac OS X (built on 10.5, but should run on 10.4 or
  later)

• MinGW release 5.1.4 on Windows XP (also runs on Vista and Windows 7)

• gcc 4 on GNU/Linux, various BSDs, etc.

On the Mac, required libraries can be obtained, e.g., using Homebrew.

Further tips on building TeXworks from source are available on some of the wiki
pages:

• https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/wiki/Building
• https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/wiki/Building-on-Windows-(MinGW)
• https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/wiki/Building-on-Mac-OS-X-(Homebrew)