GNU Messenger

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Downloading
• Compiling
• Documentation

GNU Messenger has been decommissioned, since other projects have come along in the years when it was moribund that do the same job.

Introduction

This page describes GNU Messenger, a secure messaging system. GNU Messenger is a messaging system that attempts to keep your conversations private from everyone except the intended recipient. It is compatible with existing IM networks and allows you to communicate with other GM users even when you're not using a native server.

Features:

• GNU autoconf support.
• Interoperates with other popular IM networks.
• Separate frontend and backend - easy to write new clients.
• Buddy list - See what friends you have online.
• Messages - Send a message to someone.
• Basic encryption support - Make sure no one else reads your message
• Plugins - Extend the server and client in any way imaginable.
• Attractive interface
• Taskbar docking.

Downloading

GNU Messenger is currently in CVS at Savannah.

Compiling

To compile GNU Messenger you will need a few libraries and a recent version of gcc. It is currently quite picky on the build environment.

• Crypto++ - encryption code.
• wxWindows - for wx client
• Qt - For Qt client.
• MySQL - Database needed for server.

Documentation

• Developer documentation
• Installation and basic README in CVS
• More to come..
• The old homepage at http://abelsson.com/kit/ has some more, if old, information.

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Updated: Last modified: Fri Sep 21 00:24:35 CEST 2001