qTox

qTox is a client written for the toxcore, authored by Tux3.

Windows

Add overlay and install qTox:

# layman -a tox-overlay
# emerge qtox

You can also install qTox from the official repository of Tox by the following way:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://pkg.tox.chat/debian/ nightly release" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tox.list'
wget -qO - https://pkg.tox.chat/debian/pkg.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update -qq
echo "qTox Repository Installed."
sudo apt-get install qtox
echo "qTox Installed."

These data are from the qTox INSTALL.md

You will need the the base Qt5 libraries, OpenAL and FFmpeg. For more info, look here.

git clone https://github.com/tux3/qTox.git
cd qTox
./simple_make.sh  # This will try to automatically download required dependencies

Note that simple_make.sh is not guaranteed to work.

Use pkg utility to install binary package:

pkg install qTox

Update ports tree:

portsnap fetch update

Compile and install client with all dependencies:

cd /usr/ports/net-im/qTox
make install clean

WARNING: THIS SECTION IS MOST LIKELY OUTDATED

Installation on OSX, isn't quite straight forward, here is a quick guide on how to install;

The first thing you need to do is install ProjectTox-Core with a/v support. Refer to the INSTALL guide in the ProjectTox-Core github repo.

Next you need to download QtTools (http://qt-project.org/downloads), at the time of writing this is at version 5.3.0. Make sure you deselect all the unnecessary components from the 5.3 checkbox (iOS/Android libs) otherwise you will end up with a very large download.

Once that is installed you will most likely need to set the path for qmake. To do this, open up terminal and paste in the following;

export PATH=/location/to/qmake/binary:$PATH

For myself, the qmake binary was located in /Users/mouseym/Qt/5.3/clang_64/bin/.

This is not a permanent change, it will revert when you close the terminal window, to add it permanently you will need to add echo the above line to your .profile/.bash_profile.

Once this is installed, do the following;

git clone https://github.com/tux3/qTox
cd qTox
qmake

Now, we need to create a symlink to /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include/

mkdir -p $HOME/qTox/libs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib $HOME/qTox/libs/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/include  $HOME/qTox/libs/include

The final step is to run

make

in the qTox directory, or if you are using the bundled tox core installation, you can use

./bootstrap.sh

Assuming all went well you should now have a qTox.app file within the directory. Double click and it should open!