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VChat

VChat is a TUI(Text User Interface) Chat Program, which supports communication under the terminal.

Start

Install

You can download bin from release or build it yourself.

Build

I write a deploy.sh, so you can build it in five steps.

• Step One, download a Nerd Font that you like to show interestring icons.
  1. Download a .zip file from Nerd Fonts and unzip it.
  2. Move .ttf file to $HOME/.local/share/fonts/
• Step Two, write export vchat=$HOME/VChat to your .bashrc or .zshrc
• Step Three, create a directory and clone repository.
  1. mkdir $HOME/VChat
  2. git clone [email protected]:dty2/vchat.git or git clone https://github.com/dty2/vchat.git(if you don't have SSH)
• Step Four, run bash deploy.sh to deploy VChat.
• Step Five, Chat!
  • ./server
  • ./client

About

Latest version is 0.7.8
Why is 0.7.8? There is a chinese saying that "完成的七七八八"(almost done)

Feature

• Full keyboard operation, no mouse needed
• No graphics, can even run at tty
• Many kinds of BUGS... hhh

Library

• FTXUI
• boost
• sqlitecpp
• json
• abseil
• glog

Tools

• Find icon font
• ascii font
• Cowsay, Downlaod cowsay with sudo pacman -S cowsay

FAQ

• "deploy.sh" is not working
  I wrote a lot of comments in "deploy.sh". Check which step wrong and modify it yourself.
  Or you can ask me in issue.
• VChat is not working
  You can write an issue, and I will help you as fast as possible.