Quassel IRC - Installation Notes ================================ These should help you to install Quassel IRC from source. Please also have a look at the README file! Quassel IRC provides three binaries: quasselcore, quasselclient, and quassel. While quasselcore and quasselclient obviously provide the separated core and client functionality, the latter one (quassel) is a monolithic version containing both of them for convenience. Note that quasselcore is no longer being built by default, since it tends to confuse users more than it helped. It will be back as soon as we have simple mode implemented. We now use CMake as our build system. CMake supports and encourages out-of-source builds, which do not clutter the source directory. You can (and should) thus use an arbitrary directory for building. There is no "make distclean"; "make clean" should usually be enough since CMake actually cleans up properly (qmake often didn't). If you really want to get rid of all build files, just remove the build directory. Usually, you will build Quassel as follows: cd /path/to/build/dir cmake /path/to/quassel make Additionally, you may add some options to the cmake call, prefixed by -D. These need to follow the source directory PATH: cmake /path/to/quassel -D -D NOTE: In order to reconfigure, you need to remove CMakeCache.txt (or empty the build directory), otherwise cmake will ignore modified -D options! Quassel recognizes the following options: -DWANT_(CORE|QTCLIENT|MONO)=(ON|OFF) Allow to choose which Quassel binaries to build. -DQT=/path/to/qt Use a non-system Qt installation. This is for example useful if you have a static Qt installed in some local dir. -DSTATIC=1 Enable static building of Quassel. You should link the static versions of some libs (in particular libstdc++.a) into /path/to/build/dir/staticlibs in oder to create a portable binary! BUILDING ON WINDOWS: -------------------- We have tested building on Windows with a statically built Qt (with its /bin directory in %PATH%) and MSVC 2005/2008. Make sure that you use a "shell" that has all needed env variables setup, such as the "Visual Studio Command Prompt". You will also need the /bin of the Microsoft SDK in your %PATH% at least for VS 2008, otherwise rc.exe is not found. Currently, only building in the shell using nmake seems to work; CMake can also create MSVC project files, but they seem to be problematic. However, YMMV. Software development on Windows is a real PITA. After you have everything setup: cd C:\path\to\quassel-build cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" C:\path\to\quassel\source -DSTATIC=1 nmake