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@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@ # libQMatrixClient +<a href='https://matrix.org'><img src='https://matrix.org/docs/projects/images/made-for-matrix.png' alt='Made for Matrix' height=64 target=_blank /></a> + [](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient/blob/master/COPYING)  [](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient/releases/latest) -[](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1023) +[](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1023/badge) + [](http://makeapullrequest.com) -libQMatrixClient is a Qt5-based library to make IM clients for the [Matrix](https://matrix.org) protocol. It is the backbone of [Quaternion](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion), [Tensor](https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/tensor.html) and some other projects. +libQMatrixClient is a Qt5-based library to make IM clients for the [Matrix](https://matrix.org) protocol. It is the backbone of [Quaternion](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion), [Spectral](https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/spectral.html) and some other projects. ## Contacts You can find authors of libQMatrixClient in the Matrix room: [#qmatrixclient:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#qmatrixclient:matrix.org). @@ -14,33 +17,44 @@ You can find authors of libQMatrixClient in the Matrix room: [#qmatrixclient:mat You can also file issues at [the project's issue tracker](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient/issues). If you have what looks like a security issue, please see respective instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md. ## Building and usage -So far the library is typically used as a git submodule of another project (such as Quaternion); however it can be built separately (either as a static or as a dynamic library). As of version 0.2, the library can be installed and CMake package config files are provided; projects can use `find_package(QMatrixClient)` to setup their code with the installed library files. PRs to enable the same for qmake are most welcome. - -The source code is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient - checking out a certain commit or tag from GitHub (rather than downloading the archive) is the recommended way for one-off building. If you want to hack on the library as a part of another project (e.g. you are working on Quaternion but need to do some changes to the library code), you're advised to make a recursive check out of that project (in this case, Quaternion) and update the library submodule to its master branch. - -Tags starting with `v` represent released versions; `rc` mark release candidates. +So far the library is typically used as a git submodule of another project +(such as Quaternion); however it can be built separately (either as a static or +as a dynamic library). After installing the library the CMake package becomes +available for `find_package(QMatrixClient)` to setup the client code with +the installed library files. PRs to enable the same for qmake are most welcome. + +[The source code is hosted at GitHub](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient) - +checking out a certain commit or tag (rather than downloading the archive) is +the recommended way for one-off building. If you want to hack on the library +as a part of another project (e.g. you are working on Quaternion but need +to do some changes to the library code), you're advised to make a recursive +check out of that project (in this case, Quaternion) and update +the library submodule to its master branch. + +Tags consisting of digits and periods represent released versions; tags ending with `-betaN` or `-rcN` mark pre-releases. If/when packaging pre-releases, it is advised to replace a dash with a tilde. ### Pre-requisites -- a Linux, OSX or Windows system (desktop versions tried; Ubuntu Touch is known to work; mobile Windows and iOS might work too but never tried) +- a Linux, macOS or Windows system (desktop versions tried; Ubuntu Touch is known to work; mobile Windows and iOS might work too but never tried) - For Ubuntu flavours - zesty or later (or a derivative) is good enough out of the box; older ones will need PPAs at least for a newer Qt; in particular, if you have xenial you're advised to add Kubuntu Backports PPA for it - a Git client to check out this repo - Qt 5 (either Open Source or Commercial), version 5.6 or higher + (5.9 or higher is strongly recommended) - a build configuration tool: - CMake (from your package management system or [the official website](https://cmake.org/download/)) - or qmake (comes with Qt) - a C++ toolchain supported by your version of Qt (see a link for your platform at [the Qt's platform requirements page](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstarted.html#platform-requirements)) - - GCC 5 (Windows, Linux, OSX), Clang 5 (Linux), Apple Clang 8.1 (OSX) and Visual C++ 2015 (Windows) are the oldest officially supported; Clang 3.8 and GCC 4.9.2 are known to still work, maintenance patches for them are accepted + - GCC 5 (Windows, Linux, macOS), Clang 5 (Linux), Apple Clang 8.1 (macOS) and Visual C++ 2015 (Windows) are the oldest officially supported; Clang 3.8 and GCC 4.9.2 are known to still work, maintenance patches for them are accepted - any build system that works with CMake and/or qmake should be fine: GNU Make, ninja (any platform), NMake, jom (Windows) are known to work. #### Linux Just install things from the list above using your preferred package manager. If your Qt package base is fine-grained you might want to run cmake/qmake and look at error messages. The library is entirely offscreen (QtCore and QtNetwork are essential) but it also depends on QtGui in order to handle avatar thumbnails. -#### OS X -`brew install qt5` should get you a recent Qt5. If you plan to use CMake, you may need to tell it about the path to Qt by passing `-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<where-Qt-installed>` +#### macOS +`brew install qt5` should get you a recent Qt5. If you plan to use CMake, you will need to tell it about the path to Qt by passing `-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix qt5)` #### Windows 1. Install Qt5, using their official installer. -1. If you plan to build with CMake, install CMake; if you're ok with qmake, you don't need to install anything on top of Qt. The commands in further sections imply that cmake/qmake is in your PATH - otherwise you have to prepend those commands with actual paths. As an option, it's a good idea to run a `qtenv2.bat` script that can be found in `C:\Qt\<Qt version>\<toolchain>\bin` (assuming you installed Qt to `C:\Qt`); the only thing it does is adding necessary paths to PATH. You might not want to run that script on system startup but it's very handy to setup the environment before building. For CMake, setting `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` in the same way as for OS X (see above), also helps. +1. If you plan to build with CMake, install CMake; if you're ok with qmake, you don't need to install anything on top of Qt. The commands in further sections imply that cmake/qmake is in your PATH - otherwise you have to prepend those commands with actual paths. As an option, it's a good idea to run a `qtenv2.bat` script that can be found in `C:\Qt\<Qt version>\<toolchain>\bin` (assuming you installed Qt to `C:\Qt`); the only thing it does is adding necessary paths to PATH. You might not want to run that script on system startup but it's very handy to setup the environment before building. For CMake, setting `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` in the same way as for macOS (see above), also helps. There are no official MinGW-based 64-bit packages for Qt. If you're determined to build a 64-bit library, either use a Visual Studio toolchain or build Qt5 yourself as described in Qt documentation. @@ -53,13 +67,14 @@ cd build_dir cmake .. # Pass -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX here if needed cmake --build . --target all ``` -This will get you the compiled library in `build_dir` inside your project sources. Static builds are tested on all supported platforms. Dynamic builds of libqmatrixclient are only tested on Linux at the moment; experiments with dynamic builds on Windows/OSX are welcome. Taking a look at [qmc-example](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient/tree/master/examples) (used to test the library) should give you a basic idea of using libQMatrixClient; for more extensive usage check out the source code of [Quaternion](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion) (the reference client built on QMatrixClient). +This will get you the compiled library in `build_dir` inside your project sources. Static builds are tested on all supported platforms. Dynamic builds of libqmatrixclient are only tested on Linux at the moment; experiments with dynamic builds on Windows/macOS are welcome. Taking a look at [qmc-example](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient/tree/master/examples) (used to test the library) should give you a basic idea of using libQMatrixClient; for more extensive usage check out the source code of [Quaternion](https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion) (the reference client built on QMatrixClient). You can install the library with CMake: ``` cmake --build . --target install ``` This will also install cmake package config files; once this is done, you can use `examples/CMakeLists.txt` to compile the example with the _installed_ library. This file is a good starting point for your own CMake-based project using libQMatrixClient. +Installation of `qmc-example` application can be skipped by setting `QMATRIXCLIENT_INSTALL_EXAMPLE` to `OFF`. #### qmake-based The library provides a .pri file with an intention to be included from a bigger project's .pro file. As a starting point you can use `qmc-example.pro` that will build a minimal example of library usage for you. In the root directory of the project sources: |