FeatherPad (for Windows)

Overview

FeatherPad (by Pedram Pourang, a.k.a. Tsu Jan tsujan2000@gmail.com) is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux.

The only purpose of this fork is to add the ability to compile it for Windows, using MSYS2 and MINGW64.

Requirements for Windows

• MSYS2 with MINGW64
• $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-base mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-svg mingw-w64-x86_64-hunspell mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-tools mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-translations pkg-config
• CMake installed natively for Windows (the MSYS2 CMake version didn't work for me, but maybe that could be fixed somehow)
• Optional: 7-zip installed at default location C:\Program Files\7-Zip
• Optional: NSIS installed at default location C:\Program Files (x86)\NSIS

Compilation (in a MSYS2 MINGW64 shell)

After cloning the repo, cd into its folder and run:

mkdir build
cd build
"C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" .. -G "MSYS Makefiles"
make
make install

If everything worked as expected, there will be a new directory build\dist\FeatherPad containing the compiled .exe and all files it depends on. If 7z.exe was found at the 7-zip default location, there will also be an archive of this folder at build\dist\FeatherPad-x64-portable.7z. If makensis.exe was found at the NSIS default location, there will also be an installer for FeatherPad at build\dist\FeatherPad-x64-setup.exe.

Screenshots

FeatherPad in Windows 11 (dark mode)