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# IRCd
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**I**nternet **R**elay **C**hat **d**aemon: *Charybdis*
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IRCd is a free and open source server which facilitates real-time communication over the
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internet. It was started in 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen in the University of Oulu and eventually
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made its way to William Pitcock et al, whom after 2005 developed the project under the brand
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*Charybdis*.
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In 2014 a protocol was proposed to reinvigorate real-time communication in lieu of growing
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commercial competition and a lack of innovation from open source alternatives to
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compete. This protocol is known as the **Matrix protocol**.
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**IRCd now implements the Matrix protocol.**
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# Charybdis/5
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Charybdis is designed to be fast and highly scalable, and to be community
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developed by volunteer contributors over the internet. This mission strives to
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make the software easy to understand, modify, audit, and extend.
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Charybdis Five is the first implementation of *Matrix* written in C++. It remains
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true to its roots for being highly scalable, modular and having minimal requirements.
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Most of the old code has been rewritten but with the same architecture and spirit of
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the original.
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## Installation
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#### Dependencies
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**Boost** (1.61 or later) - We have replaced libratbox with the well known and actively
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developed Boost libraries. These are included as a submodule in this repository.
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**RocksDB** (based on LevelDB) - We replace sqlite3 with a lightweight and embedded database
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and have furthered the mission of eliminating the need for external "IRC services"
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*Other dependencies:* **sodium** (NaCl crypto), **OpenSSL**, **zlib**, **snappy** (for rocksdb)
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*Build dependencies:* **gnu++14 compiler**, **automake**, **autoconf**, **autoconf2.13**,
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**autoconf-archive**, **libtool**, **shtool**
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#### Downloading Charybdis
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`git clone https://github.com/charybdis-ircd/charybdis`
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`cd charybdis`
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`git checkout 5`
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- Verify you have the latest source tree and **are on the Matrix branch**.
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### Building from git (production)
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`./autogen.sh`
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`./configure`
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`make`
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`sudo make install`
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#### Building from git (DEVELOPER PREVIEW INSTRUCTIONS)
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*This is only intended to allow development with dependencies that have not made
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their way to mainstream systems yet.* **Not for release.**
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The developer preview will install charybdis in a specific directory isolated from the
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system. It will avoid using system libraries by downloading and building the dependencies
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from the submodules we have pinned here and build them the way we have configured. You may
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need to set the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` to the built libraries and/or maintain an intact build
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directory.
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`./autogen.sh`
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`mkdir build`
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- The install directory may be this or another place of your choosing.
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- If you decide elsewhere, make sure to change the `--prefix` in the `./configure`
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statement below.
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`CXX=g++-6 ./configure --prefix=$PWD/build --enable-debug --with-included-boost=shared --with-included-rocksdb=shared`
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- Many systems alias `g++` to an older version. To be safe, specify a version manually
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in `CXX`. This will also build the submodule dependencies with that version.
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- The `--with-included-*` will fetch, configure **and build** the dependencies included
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as submodules. Include `=shared` for now until static libraries are better handled.
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`make`
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`make install`
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### Platforms
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[](https://github.com/charybdis-ircd/charybdis/tree/master)
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*This branch is not meant for production. Use at your own risk.*
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| <sub> Continuously Integrated Host </sub> | <sub> Compiler </sub> | <sub> Third party </sub> | <sub> Status </sub> |
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|:------------------------------------------- |:------------------------ |:------------------------ |:------------------- |
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| <sub> Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial </sub> | <sub> GCC 6 </sub> | <sub> Boost 1.62 </sub> | [](https://travis-ci.org/charybdis-ircd/charybdis) |
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| <sub> Linux Ubuntu 14.04 Xenial </sub> | <sub> Clang 3.8 </sub> | <sub> Boost 1.62 </sub> | [](https://travis-ci.org/charybdis-ircd/charybdis) |
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| <sub> Apple Darwin 15.5 </sub> | <sub> LLVM 7.3.0 </sub> | <sub> Boost 1.62 </sub> | [](https://travis-ci.org/charybdis-ircd/charybdis) |
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| <sub> Windows </sub> | <sub> mingw 3.5 </sub> | <sub> Boost 1.62 </sub> | [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kaniini/charybdis/branch/master) |
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## Tips
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* Please read doc/index.txt to get an overview of the current documentation.
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* Read the NEWS file for what's new in this release.
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## Developers
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* Generate doxygen using `/usr/bin/doxygen tools/doxygen.conf` the target
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directory is doc/html. Browse to doc/html/index.html
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