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nheko
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[](https://nheko.im/nheko-reborn/nheko/-/pipelines/latest)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/redsky17/nheko/branch/master)
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[](https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/releases/v0.8.1)
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[](https://matrix-static.neko.dev/room/!TshDrgpBNBDmfDeEGN:neko.dev/)
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[](https://matrix.to/#/#nheko-reborn:matrix.org)
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[](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nheko)
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<a href='https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.NhekoReborn.Nheko'><img width='240' alt='Download on Flathub' src='https://flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.png'/></a>
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The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for [Matrix] that
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feels more like a mainstream chat app ([Element], Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
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### Translations ###
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[](http://weblate.nheko.im/engage/nheko/?utm_source=widget)
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Help us with translations so as many people as possible will be able to use nheko!
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### Note regarding End-to-End encryption
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Currently the implementation is at best a **proof of concept** and it should only be used for
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testing purposes. Most importantly, it is missing device verification, so while your messages
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and media are encrypted, nheko doesn't verify who gets the messages.
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## Features
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Most of the features you would expect from a chat application are missing right now
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but we are getting close to a more feature complete client.
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Specifically there is support for:
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- E2E encryption.
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- VoIP calls (voice & video).
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- User registration.
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- Creating, joining & leaving rooms.
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- Sending & receiving invites.
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- Sending & receiving files and emoji (inline widgets for images, audio and file messages).
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- Replies with text, images and other media (and actually render them as inline widgets).
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- Typing notifications.
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- Username auto-completion.
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- Message & mention notifications.
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- Redacting messages.
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- Read receipts.
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- Basic communities support.
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- Room switcher (ctrl-K).
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- Light, Dark & System themes.
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- Creating separate profiles (command line only, use `-p name`).
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## Installation
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### Releases
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Releases for Linux (AppImage), macOS (disk image) & Windows (x64 installer)
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can be found in the [GitHub releases](https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/releases).
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### Repositories
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[](https://repology.org/project/nheko/versions)
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#### Arch Linux
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```bash
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pacaur -S nheko # nheko-git
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```
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#### Debian (10 and above) / Ubuntu (18.04 and above)
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```bash
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sudo apt install nheko
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```
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#### Fedora
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```bash
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sudo dnf install nheko
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```
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#### Gentoo Linux
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```bash
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sudo eselect repository enable guru
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sudo emerge -a nheko
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```
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#### Nix(os)
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```bash
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nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nheko
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# or
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nix-shell -p nheko --run nheko
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```
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#### Alpine Linux (and postmarketOS)
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Make sure you have the testing repositories from `edge` enabled. Note that this is not needed on postmarketOS.
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```sh
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sudo apk add nheko
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```
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#### Flatpak
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```
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flatpak install flathub io.github.NhekoReborn.Nheko
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```
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#### Guix
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```
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guix install nheko
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```
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#### macOS (10.14 and above)
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with [homebrew](https://brew.sh/):
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```sh
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brew install --cask nheko
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```
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### Build Requirements
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- Qt5 (5.12 or greater). Required for overlapping hover handlers in Qml.
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- CMake 3.15 or greater. (Lower version may work, but may break boost linking)
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- [mtxclient](https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/mtxclient)
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- [LMDB](https://symas.com/lightning-memory-mapped-database/)
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- [cmark](https://github.com/commonmark/cmark) 0.29 or greater.
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- Boost 1.70 or greater.
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- [libolm](https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm)
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- [spdlog](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog)
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- [GStreamer](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer) 1.18.0 or greater (optional, needed for VoIP support).
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- Installing the gstreamer core library plus gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good & gst-plugins-bad
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is often sufficient. The qmlgl plugin though is often packaged separately. The actual plugin requirements
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are as follows:
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- Voice call support: dtls, opus, rtpmanager, srtp, webrtc
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- Video call support (optional): compositor, opengl, qmlgl, rtp, vpx
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- [libnice](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libnice/libnice)
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- [qtkeychain](https://github.com/frankosterfeld/qtkeychain)
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- A compiler that supports C++ 17:
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- Clang 6 (tested on Travis CI)
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- GCC 7 (tested on Travis CI)
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- MSVC 19.13 (tested on AppVeyor)
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Nheko can use bundled version for most of those libraries automatically, if the versions in your distro are too old.
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To use them, you can enable the hunter integration by passing `-DHUNTER_ENABLED=ON`.
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It is probably wise to link those dependencies statically by passing `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF`
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You can select which bundled dependencies you want to use by passing various `-DUSE_BUNDLED_*` flags. By default all dependencies are bundled *if* you enable hunter.
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If you experience build issues and you are trying to link `mtxclient` library without hunter, make sure the library version(commit) as mentioned in the `CMakeList.txt` is used. Sometimes we have to make breaking changes in `mtxclient` and for that period the master branch of both repos may not be compatible.
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The bundle flags are currently:
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- USE_BUNDLED_BOOST
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- USE_BUNDLED_SPDLOG
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- USE_BUNDLED_OLM
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- USE_BUNDLED_GTEST
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- USE_BUNDLED_CMARK
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- USE_BUNDLED_JSON
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- USE_BUNDLED_OPENSSL
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- USE_BUNDLED_MTXCLIENT
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- USE_BUNDLED_LMDB
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- USE_BUNDLED_LMDBXX
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- USE_BUNDLED_TWEENY
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#### Linux
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If you don't want to install any external dependencies, you can generate an AppImage locally using docker. It is not that well maintained though...
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```bash
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make docker-app-image
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```
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##### Arch Linux
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```bash
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sudo pacman -S qt5-base \
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qt5-tools \
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qt5-multimedia \
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qt5-svg \
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cmake \
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gcc \
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fontconfig \
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lmdb \
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cmark \
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boost \
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qtkeychain-qt5
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```
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##### Gentoo Linux
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```bash
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sudo emerge -a ">=dev-qt/qtgui-5.10.0" media-libs/fontconfig dev-libs/qtkeychain
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```
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##### Ubuntu 20.04
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```bash
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# Build requirements + qml modules needed at runtime (you may not need all of them, but the following seem to work according to reports):
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sudo apt install g++ cmake zlib1g-dev libssl-dev qt{base,declarative,tools,multimedia,quickcontrols2-}5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libolm-dev liblmdb++-dev libcmark-dev nlohmann-json3-dev libspdlog-dev libgtest-dev qml-module-qt{gstreamer,multimedia,quick-extras,-labs-settings,graphicaleffects,quick-controls2} qt5keychain-dev
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```
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This will install all dependencies, except for tweeny (use bundled tweeny)
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and mtxclient (needs to be build separately).
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##### Debian Buster (or higher probably)
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(User report, not sure if all of those are needed)
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```bash
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sudo apt install cmake gcc make automake liblmdb-dev \
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qt5-default libssl-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5multimediagsttools5 libqt5multimediaquick5 libqt5svg5-dev \
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qml-module-qtgstreamer qtmultimedia5-dev qtquickcontrols2-5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools qtdeclarative5-dev \
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qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qml-module-qtmultimedia qml-module-qtquick-controls2 qml-module-qtquick-layouts \
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qt5keychain-dev
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```
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##### Fedora
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```bash
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sudo dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-linguist qt5-qtsvg-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel \
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qt5-qtquickcontrols2-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel spdlog-devel openssl-devel \
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libolm-devel cmark-devel lmdb-devel lmdbxx-devel tweeny-devel
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```
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##### Guix
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```bash
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guix environment nheko
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```
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##### macOS (Xcode 10.2 or later)
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```bash
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brew update
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brew install qt5 lmdb cmake llvm spdlog boost cmark libolm qtkeychain
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```
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##### Windows
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1. Install Visual Studio 2017's "Desktop Development" and "Linux Development with C++"
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(for the CMake integration) workloads.
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2. Download the latest Qt for windows installer and install it somewhere.
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Make sure to install the `MSVC 2017 64-bit` toolset for at least Qt 5.10
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(lower versions does not support VS2017).
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3. If you don't have openssl installed, you will need to install perl to build it (i.e. Strawberry Perl).
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### Building
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We can now build nheko:
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```bash
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cmake -S. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
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cmake --build build
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```
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To use bundled dependencies you can use hunter, i.e.:
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```bash
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cmake -S. -Bbuild -DHUNTER_ENABLED=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DUSE_BUNDLED_OPENSSL=OFF
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cmake --build build --config Release
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```
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Adapt the USE_BUNDLED_* as needed.
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If the build fails with the following error
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```
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Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Widgets" with
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any of the following names:
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Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake
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qt5widgets-config.cmake
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```
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You might need to pass `-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` to cmake to point it at your qt5 install.
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e.g on macOS
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```
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cmake -S. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix qt5)
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cmake --build build
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```
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The `nheko` binary will be located in the `build` directory.
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#### Windows
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After installing all dependencies, you need to edit the `CMakeSettings.json` to
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be able to load and compile nheko within Visual Studio.
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You need to fill out the paths for the `Qt5_DIR`.
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The Qt5 dir should point to the `lib\cmake\Qt5` dir.
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Examples for the paths are:
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- `C:\\Qt\\5.10.1\\msvc2017_64\\lib\\cmake\\Qt5`
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You should also enable hunter by setting `HUNTER_ENABLED` to `ON` and `BUILD_SHARED_LIBS` to `OFF`.
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Now right click into the root nheko source directory and choose `Open in Visual Studio`.
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You can choose the build type Release and Debug in the top toolbar.
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After a successful CMake generation you can select the `nheko.exe` as the run target.
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Now choose `Build all` in the CMake menu or press `F7` to compile the executable.
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To be able to run the application the last step is to install the needed Qt dependencies next to the
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nheko binary.
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Start the "Qt x.xx.x 64-bit for Desktop (MSVC 2017)" command promt and run `windeployqt`.
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```cmd
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cd <path-to-nheko>\build-vc\Release\Release
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windeployqt nheko.exe
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```
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The final binary will be located inside `build-vc\Release\Release` for the Release build
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and `build-vc\Debug\Debug` for the Debug build.
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Also copy the respective cmark.dll to the binary dir from `build/cmark-build/src/Release` (or Debug).
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### Contributing
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See [CONTRIBUTING](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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### Screens
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Here are some screen shots to get a feel for the UI, but things will probably change.
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### Third party
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[Single Application for Qt](https://github.com/itay-grudev/SingleApplication)
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[Matrix]:https://matrix.org
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[Element]:https://element.io
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