[Kdiff3-user] Exporting reports from KDiff3 (no GUI)

[Stephan T. <ma...@st...>]

Dear List,  

I’ve just discovered KDiff3 and I am excited about the quality of the results!
There’s one question I have, though:

I plan on using the tool for comparing literary text files (multiple german translations of the same english source text) – storing the results to a database for visualizations, so I am really interested in the underlying data KDiff3 uses to display its resluts (and don’t really want to merge the files). Is there a way to get the reports from the command-line version in whatever markup format? (XML, text-based etc.)
How complicated would it be to modify the existing source of the application to export the differences without displaying GUI?

I have just quickly looked into the source code (I only have beginner-level C++ skills..) and have failed setting up the KDiff3 project on a Mac to compile correctly (from within XCode).
Also, I realize the inner workings of the KDiff3 app are really dependent on Qt – is that true?

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Stephan


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