ChronoChat

ChronoChat is a multiparty chat application that demostrates our synchronization primitive that we call ChronoSync.

Note that after you click to close ChronoChat, it will keep running on your system tray. To restore it to normal size window, you have to click on the system tray icon (normally on the upper right corner of your screen). Clicking on the dock won't work for now and is still on the to-do list (because I'm using qt for gui, not the native Cocoa framework).

Known Issues

1. When you switch to a new room, you'll temporarily see yourself in two nodes for a minute or so. It won't affect others, just yourself. Hopefully it's not so disturbing.
2. Sometimes you may not get the most up-to-date chat history.

For those who want (or is forced to) compile from source code

Compilation steps for OSX

1. Install MacPorts, if not yet installed (http://www.macports.org/), configure NDN ports repository and install NFD if you don't have it yet.

    sudo port install nfd
    sudo nfd-start
   

2. Install ChronoChat dependencies

    sudo port install pkgconfig protobuf-cpp boost qt4-mac
   

3. Fetch source code with submodules

    git clone --recursive git://github.com/named-data/ChronoChat
   

If you already cloned repository, you can update submodules this way:

    git submodule update --init

4. Configure and install ChronoSync

    cd ChronoChat/ChronoSync
    ./waf configure
    ./waf
    sudo ./waf install
   

5. Configure and build ChronoChat

    cd ..
    PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig ./waf configure
    ./waf
   

Congratulations! build/ChronoChat.app is ready to use (on a Mac).

Compilation steps for Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04

1. Configure NDN PPA repository and install NFD if you don't have it yet.

    sudo apt-get install nfd
   

2. Install ChronoChat dependencies

    sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libevent-dev libcrypto++-dev
    sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
    sudo apt-get install qt5-default
   

3. Fetch source code with submodules

    git clone --recursive git://github.com/named-data/ChronoChat
   

If you already cloned repository, you can update submodules this way:

    git submodule update --init

4. Configure and install ChronoSync

    cd ChronoChat/ChronoSync
    ./waf configure
    ./waf
    sudo ./waf install
    sudo ldconfig
   

5. Configure and build ChronoChat

    cd ..
    ./waf configure
    ./waf
   

Congratulations! build/ChronoChat is ready to use. Do not forget to start NFD and configure FIB before using ChronoChat. For ease of debugging, you can generate trusted identities in your local TPM using debug-tools/create-cert.