README.md

C++ Chat App

Getting Started

Running

A docker image of the server and client is available on Docker Hub.

• cpp-chatapp-client
• cpp-chatapp-server

If you run it localy you will need to build the files (see Building). When you have client.out and/or server.out you can run these commands.

# to start the server
./server.out

# to start the client
./client.out

If you want to run the app inside docker you can run:

# to start the client
docker run -it thomascrmbz/cpp-chatapp-client

# to start the server
docker run -d --name chatapp-server thomascrmbz/cpp-chatapp-server

Building

Dependencies

This app has 2 dependencies:

• cpp-http-server
• cpp-websocket

You need to download the source files and insert them in the build commands.

Commands

There are 2 options to build this chat app, build it localy or build a docker image (preferred).

To build it localy

# build all
make HTTP_LIB=../cpp-http-server WEBSOCKET_LIB=./cpp-websocket

# build client only
make client HTTP_LIB=../cpp-http-server WEBSOCKET_LIB=./cpp-websocket

# build server only
make server HTTP_LIB=../cpp-http-server WEBSOCKET_LIB=./cpp-websocket

To build the docker image

# this wil build a server and a client image
make docker DOCKER_CLIENT_NAME=example/cpp-chatapp-client DOCKER_SERVER_NAME=example/cpp-chatapp-server HTTP_LIB=../cpp-http-server WEBSOCKET_LIB=./cpp-websocket

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.