WinT Messenger is a practical instant messaging application developed by a small team of students working in the WinT 3794 team. The application is written in QML/C++ and can be used with the most popular desktop and mobile operating systems.
You can see how the whole app works here, or even write code to make it better!
- Join https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wint-messenger to stay up to date with the development and help the community!
- Fork this project!
- Make your changes on a branch.
- Make changes!
- Send pull request from your fork.
- We'll review it, and push your changes to the site!
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This project is released under the GNU GPL 3.0 License.
- Project website
- Wint 3794 website
- SourceForge Project
- OpenHub Project
- Developer Documentation
- Contact developer
- Contact WinT 3794
This project's code is divided in modules, so you can take the code from an individual module, such as the LAN Chat module (qchat) and easily implement it in your program.
For the moment, we have implemented the following modules:
- LAN Chat with file sharing support (src/modules/qchat)
- XMPP Chat based on QXMPP libraries (src/modules/xmpp)
- Install the Qt SDK from http://qt-project.org/downloads.
- Download the source code and extract it with your favorite ZIP utility.
- Open the wint-im.pro file with Qt Creator.
- Configure the project by selecting Windows as your target system.
- Select the "release" build option.
- Build and run WinT Messenger by pressing CTRL + R.
- Download Xcode from the App Store.
- Open Xcode and accept the license agreement.
- After you accept the license agreement, you can safely quit Xcode (CMD + Q).
- Install the Qt SDK from http://qt-project.org/downloads.
- Download the source code and extract it with your favorite ZIP utility.
- Open the wint-im.pro file with Qt Creator.
- Configure the project by selecting Mac OS X as your target system.
- Select the "release" build option.
- Build and run WinT Messenger by pressing CMD + R.
- To install, navigate to the directory where you extracted the source code and locate a folder similar to "build-wint-im*/src/app" and copy the WinT Messenger.app to your Applications folder.
- Install the Qt SDK from http://qt-project.org/downloads.
- Download the source code and extract it with your favorite ZIP utility.
- Open the wint-im.pro file with Qt Creator.
- Configure the project by selecting Windows as your target system.
- Select the "release" build option.
- Build and run WinT Messenger by pressing CTRL + R.
- Navigate to the build directory with your preferred terminal emulator.
- Run "sudo make install" (without the quotes) to configure and install the application.
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Download the source code.
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Run the following commands to install the required packages for compiling
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-beta2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-qmake openssl-devel libssl-dev libpulse-dev qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative
- Note that your distribution may require more packages to be installed.
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Then, go to your downloads folder and unzip the current commit.
cd ~/Downloads unzip WinT-Messenger-master.zip -d WinT-Messenger-master cd WinT-Messenger-master
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Make a directory to build the software
mkdir build cd build
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Compile the application
qmake -qt=qt5 ../wint-im.pro make
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Run the application
make clean cd app ./wint-messenger
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To install WinT Messenger, run the following:
sudo make install
That's all! To run WinT Messenger, you can type "wint-messenger" (without quotes) in Terminal. You can also run WinT Messenger from your application menu (Gnome) or Dash (Unity).