Note: This is the development branch that will become Drawpile 2.0. For versions 1.x, see the stable-1.x branch.

Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.

Some feature highlights:

• Runs on Linux, Windows and OSX
• Shared canvas using the built-in server or a dedicated server
• Record, play back and export drawing sessions
• Simple animation support
• Layers and blending modes
• Text layers
• Supports pressure sensitive Wacom tablets
• Built-in chat
• Supports OpenRaster file format
• Encrypted connections using SSL
• Automatic port forwarding with UPnP

Client dependencies:

• Qt 5.5 or newer
• KF5 KArchive
• KF5 KDNSSD (optional)
• GIFLIB (optional)
• QtColorPicker
• MiniUPnP (optional)

Server dependencies:

• Qt 5.4 or newer (QtCore and QtNetwork only)
• KF5 KArchive
• libsystemd (optional)

It's a good idea to build in a separate directory to keep build files separate from the source tree.

Example:

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

The executables will be generated in the build/bin directory. You can run them from there, or install them with make install.

The configuration step supports some options:

• CLIENT=off: don't build the client (useful when building the stand-alone server only)
• SERVER=off: don't build the stand-alone server.
• TOOLS=on: build dprec2txt command line tool
• CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug: enable debugging features
• INITSYS="": select init system integration (currently only "systemd" is supported.) Set this to an empty string to disable all integration.

Example: $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug

For instructions on how to build Drawpile on Windows and OSX, see the Building from sources page.