Update build instructions

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Konstantinos Sideris 7 years ago
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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ feels more like a mainstream chat app ([Riot], Telegram etc) and less like an IR
Most of the features you would expect from a chat application are missing right now
but we are getting close to a more feature complete client.
Specifically there is support for:
- E2EE encryption.
- User registration.
- Creating, joining & leaving rooms.
- Sending & receiving invites.
@ -29,20 +30,15 @@ Specifically there is support for:
## Installation
### Nightly releases
- Linux [AppImage](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases/download/nightly/nheko-x86_64.AppImage)
- Windows [x64 installer](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases/download/nightly/nheko-installer.exe)
- macOS [disk image](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases/download/nightly/nheko.dmg)
### Releases
You can find releases for Linux (AppImage), macOS (disk image) & Windows (x64 installer) on the [Bintray repo](https://bintray.com/mujx/matrix/nheko).
### Repositories
#### Arch Linux
```bash
pacaur -S nheko-git
# or
pacaur -S nheko
pacaur -S nheko # nheko-git
```
#### Fedora
@ -69,7 +65,13 @@ sudo apk add nheko
- Qt5 (5.7 or greater). Qt 5.7 adds support for color font rendering with
Freetype, which is essential to properly support emoji.
- CMake 3.1 or greater.
- [LMDB](https://symas.com/lightning-memory-mapped-database/).
- [mtxclient](https://github.com/mujx/mtxclient)
- [matrix-structs](https://github.com/mujx/matrix-structs)
- [LMDB](https://symas.com/lightning-memory-mapped-database/)
- Boost 1.66 or greater.
- [libolm](https://git.matrix.org/git/olm)
- [libsodium](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium)
- [spdlog](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog)
- A compiler that supports C++ 14:
- Clang 5 (tested on Travis CI)
- GCC 7 (tested on Travis CI)
@ -89,7 +91,16 @@ Debian as the build host in an attempt to work around this [issue](https://githu
##### Arch Linux
```bash
sudo pacman -S qt5-base qt5-tools qt5-multimedia qt5-svg cmake gcc fontconfig lmdb
sudo pacman -S qt5-base \
qt5-tools \
qt5-multimedia \
qt5-svg \
cmake \
gcc \
fontconfig \
lmdb \
boost \
libsodium
```
##### Gentoo Linux
@ -105,28 +116,31 @@ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt592-trusty
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:george-edison55/cmake-3.x
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y g++-7 qt59base qt59svg qt59tools qt59multimedia cmake liblmdb-dev
sudo apt-get install -y g++-7 qt59base qt59svg qt59tools qt59multimedia cmake liblmdb-dev libsodium-dev
```
##### macOS (Xcode 8 or later)
```bash
brew update
brew install qt5 lmdb cmake llvm
brew install qt5 lmdb cmake llvm libsodium spdlog boost
```
### Building
Clone the repo and run
First we need to install the rest of the dependencies that are not available in our system
```bash
make release
cmake -Hdeps -B.deps \
-DUSE_BUNDLED_BOOST=OFF # if we already have boost & spdlog installed.
-DUSE_BUNDLED_SPDLOG=OFF
cmake --build .deps
```
which invokes cmake and translates to
We can now build nheko by pointing it to the path that we installed the dependencies.
```bash
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=.deps/usr
cmake --build build
```
@ -143,7 +157,7 @@ You might need to pass `-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` to cmake to point it at your qt5 in
e.g on macOS
```
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix qt5)
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix qt5)
cmake --build build
```

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