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Library Dependencies

  • gcc 4.7
  • Qt 5
  • Boost
  • Botan 1.10
  • libsnappy
  • libopus
  • libxss
  • uuid
  • libgmp

Building Firestr

Firestr uses CMake for it's meta-build configuration.

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make -j

Running Firestr

There are two ways to have two or more instances of Firestr connect to each other.

If you are on a local network and only want to communicate within the local network, you can simply run firestr.

If you want to communicate over the internet, you have to first add a public locator server to your locator list under the contact menu.

mempko.com provides a free public server at http://mempko.com:8080

To connect with someone, give them your identity and get theirs.

After you both add each other as contacts, firestr should automatically connect you with the other person. If you have added a locator, it will talk to the locator and use it as part of the connection process.

The locator service is simply responsible for providing information to the parties on their public ip/port after which firestr will initiate a p2p connection.

Have fun.

License GPLv3

Copyright (C) 2012 Maxim Noah Khailo

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.