toxcore/INSTALL.md

##Installation

###Linux:

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 clone this repo and run:

cmake CMakeLists.txt

Then you can build any of the /testing and /other by running:

make name_of_c_file

For example, to build Messenger_test.c you would run:

make Messenger_test

###Windows:

You should install:

• MinGW's C compiler
• CMake

Then you should either clone this repo by using git, or just download a zip of current Master branch and extract it somewhere.

After that you should get precompiled packages of libsodium from here and extract the archive into this repo's root. That is, sodium folder should be along with core, testing and other folders.

Navigate in cmd to this repo and run:

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" CMakeLists.txt

Then you can build any of the /testing and /other by running:

mingw32-make name_of_c_file

For example, to build Messenger_test.c you would run:

mingw32-make Messenger_test