These are preliminary instructions, until we get the config more polished. To build Quassel IRC, cd to build/ and run qmake && make. This builds all three versions of Quassel. You may choose individual targets by setting qmakes BUILD variable: qmake BUILD= where is any combination of qtclient, core, mono or all. Note that in order to change this later, you will have to make distclean, otherwise the BUILD setting seems to be ignored by qmake. After running make, you will find the binaries in build/targets. NOTE: As of now, quassel needs the directory $HOME/.quassel to exist prior to first run, otherwise it cannot create its database! This will be changed soon, but for now, you will just need to create this directory. The core-side database will be created automatically. A user named 'Default' with the password 'password' will be created, so in order to connect to the core, you need to enter this information. The core listens on port 4242 for incoming connections. Please also do read the README file. Thanks, ~ The Quassel IRC Team