bare-bones-socket-chat

Using bare C sockets to create simple chat room

• Version 1

  Uses one server and one client. This is single threaded and only allows for one client to connect to to the server at a single time.

• Version 2

  Users multithreading to allow one server to handle multiple clients. Up to the specified max number of clients that are allowed.

##Requirements

• For MacOSX: g++ >=4.9 must be installed for all functionallity to work. the cmake build step will try and use g++-4.9 for all compilation

• cmake

##Run

1. Create a build folder in the main directory and cd into it

    mkdir _build; cd _build
   

2. Generate the build files with the cmake command

    cmake ..
   

3. Compile all files

    make
   

4. Run the executable you would like

   • for server version 1

       ./server
     

   • for client version 1

       ./client 0.0.0.0
     

   • for server version 2

       ./server2
     

   • for client version 2

       ./client2 0.0.0.0