Install Instructions

Linux

First, install the build dependencies

bash apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake libconfig-dev ncurses-dev cmake checkinstall

Note

libconfig-dev should be >= 1.4.

Then you’ll need a recent version of libsodium

git clone git://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.git
cd libsodium
git checkout tags/0.4.2
./autogen.sh
./configure && make check
sudo checkinstall --install --pkgname libsodium --pkgversion 0.4.2 --nodoc
sudo ldconfig``

Finally, fetch the Tox source code and run cmake

git clone git://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core.git
cd ProjectTox-Core && mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..

Then you can build any of the files in /testing and /other that are currently supported on your platform by running

make name_of_c_file

For example, to build Messenger_test.c you would run

make Messenger_test

Or you could just build everything that is supported on your platform by running

bash make

OS X

Homebrew

brew install libtool automake autoconf libconfig libsodium cmake
cmake .
make
sudo make install

Non-homebrew

Much the same as Linux, remember to install the latest XCode and the developer tools (Preferences -> Downloads -> Command Line Tools). Users running Mountain Lion and the latest version of XCode (4.6.3) will also need to install libtool, automake and autoconf. They are easy enough to install, grab them from http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/, http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ and http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/, then follow these steps for each:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Do not install them from macports (or any dependencies for that matter) as they get shoved in the wrong directory and make your life more annoying.

Another thing you may want to install is the latest gcc, this caused me a few problems as XCode from 4.3 no longer includes gcc and instead uses LLVM-GCC, a nice install guide can be found at http://caiustheory.com/install-gcc-421-apple-build-56663-with-xcode-42

Windows

You should install:

• MinGW‘s C compiler
• CMake

You have to modify your PATH environment variable so that it contains MinGW’s bin folder path. With default settings, the bin folder is located at C:\MinGW\bin, which means that you would have to append ;C:\MinGW\bin to the PATH variable.

Then you should either clone this repo by using git, or just download a zip of current Master branch and extract it somewhere.

After that you should get precompiled package of libsodium from here and extract the archive into this repo’s root. That is, sodium folder should be along with core, testing and other folders.

Navigate in cmd to this repo and run:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..

Then you can build any of the /testing and /other that are currently supported on your platform by running:

mingw32-make name_of_c_file

For example, to build Messenger_test.c you would run:

mingw32-make Messenger_test``

Or you could just build everything that is supported on your platform by running:

mingw32-make