libstrophe is a lightweight XMPP client library written in C. It has minimal dependencies and is configurable for various environments. It runs well on both Linux, Unix, and Windows based platforms.

Its goals are:

• usable quickly
• well documented
• reliable

If you are building from a source control checkout, run:

./bootstrap.sh

to generate the configure script.

From the top-level directory, run the following commands:

./configure
make

This will create a static library, also in the top-level directory, which can be linked into other programs. The public API is defined in strophe.h which is also in the top-level directory.

The examples directory contains some examples of how to use the library; these may be helpful in addition to the API documentation

To install on your system, as root (or using sudo):

make install

Note, the default install path is /usr/local/, to specify another path use the --prefix option during configure, e.g.:

./configure --prefix=/usr

libstrophe requires:

• expat or libxml2 - expat is the default; use --with-libxml2 to switch
• libresolv on UNIX systems - make sure you include -lresolv if you are compiling by hand.
• libtool

In addition, if you wish to run the unit tests, you will need the check package.

You can install libstrophe with:

brew install libstrophe

API documentation is inline with the code and conforms to Doxygen standards. You can generate an HTML version of the API documentation by running:

doxygen

Then open docs/html/index.html.