Toxic

Toxic is a Tox-based instant messenging client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository, and is now available as a standalone application.

Installation

Dependencies

Base

libtoxcore
ncurses (for Debian based systems, 'libncursesw5-dev')

Audio

libtoxav (libtoxcore compiled with audio support)
openal

Compiling

cd build/
make PREFIX="/where/to/install"
sudo make install PREFIX="/where/to/install"

Compilation Notes

You can add specific flags to the Makefile with USER_CFLAGS="" and/or USER_LDFLAGS=""
You can pass your own flags to the Makefile with CFLAGS="" and/or LDFLAGS="" (this will supersede the default ones)
Audio call support is automatically enabled if all dependencies are found
If you want to build toxic without audio call support, you can use make DISABLE_AV=1

Packaging

For packaging purpose, you can use DESTDIR="" to specify a directory where to store installed files
DESTDIR="" can be used in addition to PREFIX="":
- DESTDIR="" is meant to specify a directory where to store installed files (ex: "/tmp/build/pkg")
- PREFIX="" is meant to specify a prefix directory for binaries and data files (ex: "/usr/local")

Troubleshooting

If your default prefix is "/usr/local" and you receive the following:

error while loading shared libraries: libtoxcore.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you can attempt to correct it by running sudo ldconfig. If that doesn't work, run:

echo '/usr/local/lib/' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
sudo ldconfig

Settings

Running Toxic for the first time creates an empty file called toxic.conf in your home configuration directory ("~/.config/tox" for Linux users). Adding options to this file allows you to enable auto-logging, change the time format (12/24 hour), and much more. You can view our example config file here.

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