README.md

Tau-Alpha-Server

To build

You need boost 1.68+ and cmake 3.14+ For ubuntu installation looks like:

Boost

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mhier/libboost-latest
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libboost1.70
sudo apt install libboost1.70-dev

apt install gcc-8
apt install g++-8

CMake

wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ bionic main'
apt install cmake

cmake -Bbuild -H.
cmake --build build --target all

Then you need to change directory to the service you want to build. For example

cd sendMessage

and run

cmake -Bbuild -H.
cmake --build build --target all

Binaries will be located in ./build directory

Usage for messagingClient is

./messagingClient SERVERIP SERVERPORT UID [messages directory]

example

./messagingClient 127.0.0.1 10000 Ohad /myMessages

Usage for sendMessage is

./sendMessage serverIP serverPort myUID destinationUIDs(comma separated) fileToSend

example

./sendMessage 127.0.0.1 10000 Andrei Fola,Isar,Ohad,Tomas ./text.txt

Usage for messagingServer is

./messagingServer portToListen directoryForMessages

default port is 10000 default directory is messages