canvon / cvnirc-qt

cvnirc-qt - testing how useful the Qt widget library (and more) can be for me, canvon

cvnirc-qt

canvon IRC client, "based-on-Qt-framework" incarnation.

Yes, this is in fact a new IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client, in 2017. But it's rather a C++/Qt learning/evaluation project for me.

How to build

Install dependencies:

# apt-get install qtbase5-dev qt5-default
# apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools markdown  # to build subdir doc
# apt-get install libreadline6-dev  # on Debian 8
# apt-get install libreadline-dev   # on Debian 9

Build:

cvnirc-qt$ mkdir ../build-cvnirc-qt
cvnirc-qt$ cd    ../build-cvnirc-qt
build-cvnirc-qt$ qmake ../cvnirc-qt/cvnirc-qt.pro
build-cvnirc-qt$ make

This should build:

• cvnirc-core (internal library),
• cvnirc-gui (the main program, graphical user interface),
• cvnirc-cli (command-line interface; chat in the terminal), and
• doc (documentation).

How to run

Run the main program via

build-cvnirc-qt$ ./cvnirc-gui/cvnirc-qt-gui

or, if you're using, e.g., Debian 8 or similarly older:

build-cvnirc-qt$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:cvnirc-core ./cvnirc-gui/cvnirc-qt-gui

To view the documentation (which is mostly empty as of writing, 2017-11-26,) you can use:

build-cvnirc-qt$ assistant -collectionFile doc/cvnirc-qt-collection.qhc

That should display the built cvnirc-qt documentation Qt Help file.