chatroom-c

chatroom-c is a multi-threaded CLI-based chat application in a mesh network design using plain C with pthreads + sockets.

Building

• GNU Make: make

Usage

Example: ./chatroom-c

Must have a chatnode.properties file matching the format shown in the repository. Default port is 51966, aka 0xCAFE. Comment or remove the ip key in the properties file to host the chat room on the desired port, otherwise, the IP + port combo is used by clients to connect to an existing chat room by filling in the properties file correctly and running /join once the client is started.

Authors

• Mahafuj Alam
• Nicholas Botticelli

Demo

An example video showing cross-network chatting using an older version with a couple visual bugs (not affecting internal logic) can be seen in the YouTube video below.