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Installation

Linux

Follow ProjectTox-Core installation instructions. Don't forget to install it after building it.

Dependencies

Additionally to the tox build dependencies, you will need:

valac (>=0.18)
cmake (>=2.8.7)
libgtk-3-dev (>=3.4)
libgee-0.8-dev (>=0.8)

Ubuntu >= 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) / Linux Mint / Debian:

apt-get install valac cmake libgtk-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) needs a ppa to get a newer version of valac and libgee-0.8

apt-add-repository ppa:vala-team/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install valac cmake libgtk-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev

Fedora:

yum install vala cmake gtk3-devel libgee-devel

Arch Linux: (There is an aur-package)

pacman -S vala cmake gtk3 libgee

Building and installing Venom

After you installed the dependencies, clone, build and install venom:

git clone git://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom.git
cd Venom
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

OS X

Follow ProjectTox-Core installation instructions.

With Homebrew

brew install vala cmake gtk+3 libgee git
git clone git://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom.git
cd Venom
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Windows

The preferred way is to cross compile windows binaries from linux using the mingw-w64 toolchain.

Cross compile (mingw-w64)

###Dependencies

  • Set up a mingw-w64 toolchain
  • build ffmpeg (optionally for now)
  • build libsodium
  • build libtoxcore
  • build gtk+ 3.x
  • build libgee

There is a package for arch linux doing exactly that: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-venom-git

###Compiling Venom

git clone git://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom.git
cd Venom
mkdir build
cd build
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/<yourcrosscompilerprefix>/lib/pkgconfig
cmake -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-mwindows" \
      -DCOMPILER_PREFIX=<yourcrosscompilerprefix> \
      -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../cmake/mingw-toolchain.cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" ..
make
sudo make install

On Windows (mingw-w64)

  • If you don't have cmake and git installed already:
  • Download and install cmake from here.
  • Download and install Git from here.

###Dependencies

Compile libgee:

cd libgee-0.12.0
./configure --prefix=/<yourprefix>
# if you have mingw mounted on /mingw, it should look like this:
# ./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install

###Compiling Venom

After this, you can begin compiling Venom:

git clone git://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom.git
cd Venom
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..
# Ignore cmake complaining about sh.exe being in PATH for now,
# just run it again and it will work
# 
# you can hide the console window by passing this to the c-compiler
# cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-mwindows" ..
# 
# If you are getting pkg-config errors, provide pkg-config with the correct path
# and run cmake again
# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/<yourprefix>/lib/pkgconfig cmake ..
# so if you installed tox to /mingw, use
# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw/lib/pkgconfig cmake ..
# 
# (finally) build it
mingw32-make

FAQ

Cmake complaining about missing modules

If you are getting errors like these when running cmake

-- checking for module '<some_module>'
--   package '<some_module>' not found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:279 (message):
  A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:333 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
  CMakeLists.txt:30 (PKG_CHECK_MODULES)

then cmake can't find one or more dependencies needed to build Venom.

Make sure, that you have all dependencies mentioned above installed. If you used a different prefix than /usr to install libtoxcore, you will need to tell it cmake here. You do this by setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/<your_prefix>/lib/pkgconfig and running cmake again.

See also the solutions to issue #4 and issue #12