consoleChat

A simple command line chat client and server written in C.

Installation

First clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/ansermino/consoleChat.

Server

Run make from inside consoleChat/server. By default make will set the port number to 59248. To specify the port for incoming connections run make PORT=#### where #### is your desired port number.

Client

Run make from inside consoleChat/client. By default make will set the port number to 59248. To specify the port of the server run make PORT=#### where #### is your desired port number.

Running server

Run consoleChat/chat_server.

Running client

Run consoleChat/chat_client 127.0.0.1. Replace 127.0.0.1 with the servers IP address.