Simple, Lightweight, Cross-Platform IRC Client with Minimal Dependencies

• Kashyyyk 2 is lightweight, fast, and efficient.
• Intuitive interface
• Native support for Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD

Kashyyyk 2 is licensed under a permissive BSD-like license with a derivative naming clause.

License text:

  Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Martin McDonough.  All rights reserved.
 
  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 
 - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 
 - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 
 - Products derived from this software may not be called "Kashyyyk", nor may
     "YYY" appear in their name, without prior written permission of
     the copyright holders.
 
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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 IN THE SOFTWARE.

Kashyyyk 2 is based on the original Kashyyyk IRC client, which was designed to be similar to HexChat but have better OS X support. Kashyyyk 2 focuses on being lightweight and efficient on resources, without sacrificing user experience. This includes having very minimal dependencies, with most platform/osdep code being written specifically for the needs of Kashyyyk 2.

Kashyyyk 2 supports many compilers and platforms.

• MSVC 2015
• MSYS2/MinGW
• GCC 4, 6
• OpenWatcom C/C++ 1.9

• Windows 7, 10
• Linux 2.6+
• FreeBSD 10, 11
• OpenBSD 5.9, 6.1

Building for different compilers may have different build system requirements.

The requirements for building Kashyyyk are different depending on what compiler and platform you are using. For all platforms, FLTK 1.3+ is needed.

To build with MSVC 2015, open the Kashyyyk2.sln file.

You will need to build FLTK. If you are building a release build, be sure to override the flags for FLTK to use /MT instead of /MD.

Place the fltk.lib or fltkd.lib file into the fltk directory of the Kashyyyk 2 root. Copy the FL header directory and the fluid binaries into the fltk directory as well, and be sure to get the abi-version.h file from the build directory of FLTK.

Building with OpenWatcom can be done by running wmake -f makefile.wat in the Kashyyyk 2 root. You will need to put the FLTK source directory in the same directory as the Kashyyyk 2 root, and build from 'fltk-watcom/build' in FLTK for the libraries and tools (fluid) to be found.

Building FLTK with OpenWatcom is possible, but not simple. This deserves its own section (TODO!)

Building with OpenWatcom can be done by running make -f makefile.gcc in the Kashyyyk 2 root. You will need to put the FLTK source directory in the same directory as the Kashyyyk 2 root, and build from 'fltk/build' in FLTK for the libraries and tools (fluid) to be found.

Building Kashyyyk 2 on Linux/BSD requires the SCons build tool, which requires Python. The SCons files should work with either Python 2.7 or Python 3 versions of SCons.

After FLTK and Fluid have been installed, run SCons from the Kashyyyk 2 root directory.