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##Installation

###Linux:

This project depends on Qt5 and ProjectTox-Core, which in turn depends on libsodium.

You should get and install Qt5. You can get Qt5 precompiled binaries and source code to compile them yourself from here.

You should get and install libsodium:

git clone git://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.git
cd libsodium
git checkout tags/0.4.2
./autogen.sh
./configure && make check
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Then get this repo and build the GUI:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/nurupo/ProjectTox-Qt-GUI.git
cd ProjectTox-Qt-GUI
mkdir build && cd build
qmake -Wall ../projectfiles/QtCreator/TOX-Qt-GUI.pro
make

On success, this will build a TOX-Qt-GUI executable.

Note that qmake might not be found by bash, in that case you should use qmake from Qt's installation directory. For example, my qmake was located at /home/nurupo/Qt5.1.0/5.0.1/gcc/bin/qmake.

If Qt complains about missing GL library, install libgl-dev package.

Also, using make with -jN parameter, where N is a number of cores your processor has + 1, should decrease build time greatly. For example, if your machine is dual core, use make -j3.

If you want to build GUI by using Qt Creator, rather than terminal commands, follow Windows guide starting at "Then open the Qt Creator...".

###Windows:

You should get and install MinGW version of Qt5 from here.

If you don't already have a git shell installed, you can use one that comes with GitHub for Windows.

Open the git shell and run:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/nurupo/ProjectTox-Qt-GUI.git
cd ProjectTox-Qt-GUI

Then download and extract this archive containing precompiled binaries of libsodium 0.4.2 for Windows at ProjectTox-Qt-GUI\libs\, so that TOX-Qt-GUI\libs\sodium\include becomes a valid path. Note that tThere is no libs folder, you should create one.

Then open the Qt Creator, which should have been installed with Qt, select File -> Open File or Project... and open the project file at ProjectTox-Qt-GUI\projectfiles\QtCreator\TOX-Qt-GUI.pro, click on Configure Project. After that find Debug on bottom left and switch it to Release. Then click on Projects on the left, under Build Steps find Make, click on its Details and add -jN to the Make arguments, where N is number of cores your processor has + 1. For example, if your machine is dual core, add -j3. Close the Details and hit the big green arrow on bottom left (or press Ctlr+R), that should build and run the GUI in Release mode.

You might also need to install Windows SDK for your version of Windows OS.