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Nextcloud Desktop Client

The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with your computer.

Desktop Client on Windows

🚀 Releases

For the latest stable recommended version, please refer to the download page https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients

Contributing to the desktop client

✌️ Please read the Code of Conduct. This document offers some guidance to ensure Nextcloud participants can cooperate effectively in a positive and inspiring atmosphere and to explain how together we can strengthen and support each other.

👪 Join the team

There are many ways to contribute, of which development is only one! Find out how to get involved, including as a translator, designer, tester, helping others, and much more! 😍

Help testing

Download and install the client:
🔽 All releases
🔽 Daily master builds

Reporting issues

If you find any bugs or have any suggestion for improvement, please open an issue in this repository.

Bug fixing and development

1. 🚀 Set up your local development environment

1.1 System requirements

Windows 10, Windows 11, Mac OS > 10.14 or Linux

Note

Find the system requirements and instructions on how to work on Windows with KDE Craft on our desktop client blueprints repository.

🔽 Inkscape (to generate icons)
Developer tools: cmake, clang/gcc/g++:
Qt6 since 3.14, Qt5 for earlier versions
OpenSSL
🔽 QtKeychain
SQLite

1.2 Optional

Tip

We highly recommend Nextcloud development environment on Docker Compose for testing/bug fixing/development.
▶️ https://juliushaertl.github.io/nextcloud-docker-dev/

1.3 Step by step instructions on how to build the client to contribute

Clone the Github repository:

git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop.git

Create :

mkdir <build directory>

Compile:

cd <build directory>
cmake -S <cloned desktop repo> -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<dependencies> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=. -DNEXTCLOUD_DEV=ON

Tip

The cmake variabel NEXTCLOUD_DEV allows you to run your own build of the client while developing in parallel with an installed version of the client.

Build it:

Windows:

cmake --build .

Other platforms:

make

Tip

For building the client for mac OS we have a tool called mac-crafter. You will find instructions on how to use it at admin/osx/mac-crafter.

🐛 Pick a good first issue
👩‍🔧 Create a branch and make your changes. Remember to sign off your commits using git commit -sm "Your commit message"
⬆ Create a pull request and @mention the people from the issue to review
👍 Fix things that come up during a review
🎉 Wait for it to get merged!

Get in touch 💬

You can also get support for Nextcloud!

📜 License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

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