GTK application which does nothing but renders Markdown document onto the screen, using WebKit.

If you want display contents of a file called filename.md, just type:

$ mdview filename.md

If you want to read Markdown document from standard input, use - instead of filename:

$ cat filename.md | mdview -

• GTKmm 3.0
• WebKitGTK2 4.1
• hoedown (included in the repository)

Before you can compile the executable, you need to update dependencies included in the repository as Git submodules. You can do this with:

$ git submodule update --init

After this you need to install other requirements, as well as C++ compiler and CMake if you do not have them installed already. On Ubuntu systems this seems to do the trick:

$ sudo apt install build-essential cmake libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev

Then you can proceed to compile the actual executable. This can be done with:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

And you should have mdview binary available in the build directory.

After the executable has been compiled, you can install it to your system like this:

$ sudo make install