compiling.rst

Compiling Tox

In order to compile Tox you'll need to do the following:

• compile all build requirements
• compile the core libraries
• compile a client

Compile all build requirements

Toxcore itself requires the following libraries:

• libsodium or NaCl

Toxav requires the following libraries:

• libopus
• libvpx

Both of these libraries can be installed using the instructions here

Compile the core libraries

You'll first need to get the core library, you can either download the latest PGP commit verified tarball from Jenkins here or clone it from Github at https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore

Instructions on compiling are here

Compile a client

Next you'll need to compile a client, they are listed here

qTox is a graphical, cross-platform client written for the Toxcore by Tux3 in C++ using QT.

Toxic is a CLI client for UNIX-like operating systems that uses Ncurses.

uTox is a graphical, cross-platform client written by notsecure.