lnjX / Kaidan

Kaidan - Cross platform XMPP client

Installation

On Linux do the following:

Create a working directory

• mkdir src
• cd src

Fetch swift source

• wget https://swift.im/downloads/releases/swift-3.0/swift-3.0.tar.gz
• tar -xzvf swift-3.0.tar.gz
• cd swift-3.0/

Install all dependencies to build swiften

• ./BuildTools/InstallSwiftDependencies.sh
• ./scons Swiften -j<Number of threads>

Install dependencies to build Kaidan (example for Debian)

• sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libstdc++-5-dev libqt5quick5 libqt5quickparticles5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5qml5 libqt5network5 libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a qt5-default libglib2.0-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev

Get Kaidan source code

• cd ..
• git clone https://github.com/KaidanIM/Kaidan

Either

• open pro file within qtreator

or use command line

• cd Kaidan
• qmake
• make -j<Number of threads>

Troubleshooting

Cannot find -lSwiften_Boost

When you get this error, you probably have installed the debian packages for libboost. Remove them and rebuild swift. Then it should build correctly.