From 449b6fa5ffd1c5ac893c475cdebedb9ae0c1cd92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ansa89 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:28:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 168a646..198093e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,25 +1,36 @@ # Toxic +Toxic is an ncurses based instant messaging client for [Tox](https://tox.im) which formerly resided in the [Tox core repository](https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore) and is now available as a standalone program. It looks like [this](http://i.imgur.com/hL7WhVl.png). -Toxic is an ncurses based instant messaging client for [Tox](http://tox.im) which formerly resided in the [Tox core repository](https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core) and is now available as a standalone program. It looks like [this](http://i.imgur.com/hL7WhVl.png). ## Installation -* Generate the configure script by running the ```autoreconf -i``` command. -* Execute the configure script with ```./configure``` (you may need to pass it the location of your dependency libraries, i.e.): -```./configure --prefix=/where/to/install --with-libtoxcore-headers=/path/to/ProjectTox-Core/toxcore --with-libtoxcore-libs=/path/to/ProjectTox-Core/build/.libs --with-libsodium-headers=/path/to/libsodium/include/ --with-libsodium-libs=/path/to/sodiumtest/lib/ ``` +### Base dependencies +* libtoxcore +* ncurses (for Debian based systems: libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev) -* Audio calling support requires openal installed -* Compile with --disable-av to build without audio call support -* Compile and install the program with ```make && sudo make install``` +### Audio dependencies +* libtoxav +* openal -#### Notes -If your default prefix is /usr/local and you get the error: "error while loading shared libraries: libtoxcore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", then you can try running ```sudo ldconfig```. If that doesn't fix it, run: +### Compiling +* `cd build/` +* `make` +* `sudo make install DESTDIR="/path/you/like" + +* You can add specific flags to makefile with `USER_CFLAGS=""` and/or `USER_LDFLAGS=""` +* You can pass your own flags to makefile with `CFLAGS=""` and/or `LDFLAGS=""` (this will supersede the defaults one) + +* Audio calling support is automatically enabled if all dependencies are found + +### Troubleshooting +If your default prefix is "/usr/local" and you get the error: +`error while loading shared libraries: libtoxcore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory` +you can try fix it running `sudo ldconfig`. +If that doesn't fix it, run: ``` echo '/usr/local/lib/' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf sudo ldconfig ``` -If you dont already have them, you may need to install the ncurses libraries. For Debian based systems: -``` -sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev -``` + ## Settings -After running Toxic for the first time an empty file called toxic.conf should reside in your home configuration directory (~/.config/tox for Linux users). For an example on how to use this config file to save settings such as auto-logging and time format see: toxic/misc/toxic.conf +After running Toxic for the first time an empty file called toxic.conf should reside in your home configuration directory ("~/.config/tox" for Linux users). +For an example on how to use this config file to save settings such as auto-logging and time format see: [toxic/misc/toxic.conf](toxic/misc/toxic.conf).