Chocal Chat Desktop Client

This repository contains desktop client for Chocal Chat application that supports Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems.

First Things First

You need to run Chocal Chat Server application on your local network. You can take it from here: https://github.com/J-TAG/chocal-chat-server

Requirements

In order to run Chocal Chat desktop client you need to install Qt development environment.

1. Install Qt: https://qt.io
2. Run Chocal Server: https://github.com/J-TAG/chocal-chat-server
3. Clone Chocal Desktop
4. Use lrelease to generate translation qm files. For example if Qt bin directory is in your PATH environment variable you can run lrelease-qt5 ChocalChat.pro or if it is not you can run path/to/qt/bin/lrelease ChocalChat.pro or in a Windows environmet run C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\5.6\msvc2015_64\bin\lrelease.exe ChocalChat.pro. Note that because qm files are supposed to be bundled in a .qrc file, so you SHOULD do this step, otherwise the build operation will fail.

How It Works?

Please refer to Chocal Server README.md file to find out how Chocal API is working.