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

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi Stephan,

At the moment there is no export of diff results.
If a line by line diff is sufficient then I recommend a command line tool like 
GNU diff or similar. Probably OSX also provides something.

Yes, KDiff3 is based on Qt.

If you want to compile I assume the procedure is similar for Mac as for other 
systems.
- Download and install Qt-version for Mac. (Possibly setup paths)
- cd into the kdiff3/src-QT4 subdir
- qmake kdiff3.pro
- make
But also check this:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qmake-platform-notes.html

For exporting:
The data containing the diffs is structured via Diff, DiffList, Diff3Line, 
Diff3LineList (see src-QT4/diff.h).

Joachim

> 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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