Hi. I tried to setup Unizone for Linux to use as a BeShare client. Has anyone else here tried this, or set up a different BeShare client for linux?
I am having issues compiling it. Partially because I am having issues getting qt4 on modern linux, partially because it has lots of errors trying to gmake it. Would have been nice to just have the program. I don’t want to make a program (-:
Too lazy.
Path of least resistance may be a Windows build + WINE.
Unizone was being updated far more recently than I thought, it was QT2 or 3 last time I used it; but it’s ~8 years now
Javashare apparently doesn’t work on recent Java either
That’s what I read, about JavaShare.
I didn’t even consider wine. That’s weird of me. That might be least resistance. Seemingly I’ll still have to build it. Lame.
Do you want it for the chat or the files? Writing a chat client is pretty trivial.
60/40 on the side of chat. A little bit of just for the sake of doing it. I do obviously have Haiku on other machines, and that works great.
I’m assuming the MUSCLE side of things isn’t the issue.
A long time ago I wrote the Delphi object pascal MUSCLE binding and for sure had a basic chat client working. There are other bindings too so it wouldn’t be hard to make it work. The file sharing is more involved so that part I don’t know about as I never looked at it.
Using QTWine (I just opened the exe. didn’t try to do regular wine setup as I prefer to) worked out. Using the msi installer (had to open from Wine desktop, not from QTWine page). I was able to get connected. The interface isn’t great, but I’ll see if I can tweak it.