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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7709fe9..0000000 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,156 +0,0 @@ -tl;dr -===== - - cmake . && make && ./biboumi - -If that didn’t work, read on. - -Dependencies -============ - -Build and runtime dependencies: - -Tools: - -- A C++14 compiler (clang >= 3.4 or gcc >= 4.9 for example) -- CMake -- ronn (optional) to build the man page - -Libraries: - -- expat - Used to parse XML from the XMPP server. - http://expat.sourceforge.net/ - -- libiconv - Encoding from anything into UTF-8 - http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ - -- libuuid - Generate unique IDs - http://sourceforge.net/projects/libuuid/ - -- libidn (optional, but recommended) - Provides the stringprep functionality. Without it, JIDs for IRC users are - not provided. - http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ - -- c-ares (optional, but recommended) - Asynchronously resolve domain names. This offers better reactivity and - performances when connecting to a big number of IRC servers at the same - time. - http://c-ares.haxx.se/ - -- libbotan 1.11 (optional) - Provides TLS support. Without it, IRC connections are all made in - plain-text mode. - Other branches than the 1.11 are not supported. - http://botan.randombit.net/ - -- litesql (optional) - Provides a way to store various options in a (sqlite3) database. Each user - of the gateway can store their own values (for example their prefered port, - or their IRC password). - http://git.louiz.org/litesql - -- systemd (optional) - Provides the support for a systemd service of Type=notify. This is useful only - if you are packaging biboumi in a distribution with Systemd. - - -Configure -========= - -Configure the build system using cmake, there are many solutions to do that, -the simplest is to just run - - cmake . - -in the current directory. - -The default build type is "Debug", if you want to build a release version, -set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable to "release", by running this command -instead: - - cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr - -You can also configure many parameters of the build (like customize CFLAGS, -the install path, choose the compiler, or enabling some options like the -POLLER to use), using the ncurses interface of ccmake: - - ccmake . - -In ccmake, first use 'c' to configure the build system, edit the values you -need and finaly use 'g' to generate the Makefiles to build the system and -quit ccmake. - -You can also configure these options using a -D command line flag. - -The list of available options: - -- POLLER: lets you select the poller used by biboumi, at - compile-time. Possible values are: - EPOLL: use the Linux-specific epoll(7). This is the default on Linux. - POLL: use the standard poll(2). This is the default value on all non-Linux - platforms. - -- WITH_BOTAN and WITHOUT_BOTAN: The first force the usage of the Botan library, - if it is not found, the configuration process will fail. The second will - make the build process ignore the Botan library, it will not be used even - if it's available on the system. If none of these option is specified, the - library will be used if available and will be ignored otherwise. - -- WITH_LIBIDN and WITHOUT_LIBIDN: Just like the WITH(OUT)_BOTAN options, but - for the IDN library - -- WITH_SYSTEMD and WITHOUT_SYSTEMD: Just like the other WITH(OUT)_* options, - but for the Systemd library - -Example: - - cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX \ - -DWITH_BOTAN=1 -DWITHOUT_SYSTEMD=1 - -This command will configure the project to build a release, with TLS enabled -(using Botan) but without using Systemd (even if available on the system). - - -Build -===== - -- Once you’ve configured everything using cmake, build the project - - make - - -Install -======= - -- And then, optionaly, Install the software system-wide - - make install - - -Testing -======= - -You can run the test suite with - - make check - -This project uses the Catch unit test framework, it will be automatically -fetched with cmake, by cloning the github repository. - -You can also check the overall code coverage of this test suite by running - - make coverage - -This requires gcov and lcov to be installed. - - -Run -=== - -Run the software using the `biboumi` binary. Read the documentation (the -man page biboumi(1) or the `biboumi.1.md` file) for more information on how -to use biboumi. |