ft_irc

ft_irc is a team school project of 42.

The objective is to implement a simple C++98 IRC server. The list of available commands can be found in the Wiki.

42 is a private, non-profit and tuition-free Computer Science school based on peer-to-peer learning and hands-on projects.

Requirements

• Git
• Make
• A C++ compiler

Getting started

1. Clone the repository and its dependencies:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/t4778/ft_irc

2. Change it to your working directory and run:

$ make

3. Start the server:

$ ./ircserv <port> <password>

• port: the port number on which your server will accept incoming connections
• password: the password needed by any IRC client that wants to connect to your server

4. Connect to the client using an IRC client such as irssi which is the client used as reference for developping this server.

Run tests

$ make debug
$ make debug_replies
$ make debug_parsing

Authors

• nmaccary
• mboivin