Can this be compiled on linux?

andreas-mausch / whatsapp-viewer

Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db database (crypt12)

https://andreas-mausch.de/whatsapp-viewer/

MIT License

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Can this be compiled on linux? #66

Closed rudolfbyker closed 6 years ago

rudolfbyker commented 6 years ago

Can this project be compiled on Linux, or do you only target Windows? If so, would you show the basic steps, or provide a Makefile?

(I tried running the released .exe in wine, and it shows the contacts, but not the messages.)

andreas-mausch commented 6 years ago

No, WhatsApp Viewer can't be compiled on Linux. I use Win32 API for the GUI. I'd like to use an platform independent GUI framework, but I dislike all I know. :(

For me WhatsApp Viewer runs perfectly fine on wine. Can you share a screenshot how it looks like?

I've experimented with Electron in this branch: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/tree/electron This one builds on Linux. However, I disliked the 150mb executable and didn't continue there.