Qodem Downloads

The top-level Qodem download archive containing all released versions is at SourceForge:

Other operating system links:

Windows installer
Source tarball for Linux, BSD, and Mac

The latest official release of Qodem is 1.0.1, available from the SourceForge.net download section. The table below lists the available files and SHA1/SHA256 hashes.

Filename	Description	SHA-1	SHA-256
qodem-1.0.1.tar.gz	Source tarball - All platforms	955741a2372b36144377d6994289fd3949d3f64e	dedc73bfa73ced5c6193f1baf1ffe91f7accaad55a749240db326cebb9323359
qodem-1.0.1-setup.exe	Windows 32-bit Installer	96b60baf34b7cb85d4af87661f7363317504f7bb	90cb075145caffcfdae5c6bf1c145171c48f557428a3cbd229ef9379154065e2
qodem-1.0.1-standalone.exe	Windows 32-bit Standalone Executable	6caeba90e2f2ca645454a63655161538d9e7a6ec	1bf69f4004f3b040929dcfb897e088b464ebffd43a64fabd454ec74311865ee9

X11 Version Notes

To build the X11 version, run configure --enable-x11 and make. PDCurses will be built first in the lib/pdcurses subdirectory, and then Qodem will be built as qodem-x11.

Some known issues of the X11 build are:

• Mouse buttons work, but mouse tracking does not. This is due to a difference in how the PDCurses library handles mouse behavior compared to ncurses.
• Numeric keypad function key macros might not work on some keyboards. This appears to be an issue in PDcurses handling of X keyboard input.

Win32 Version Notes

To build the Win32 version, build each of the following projects in Visual C++:

• lib/c/vc6libc/vc6libc.dsp
• lib/cryptlib/crypt32static.dsp
• lib/upnp/vc6miniupnpc/vc6miniupnpc.dsp
• lib/pdcurses/vc6pdcurses/vc6pdcurses.dsp
• vc6qodem/vc6qodem.dsp

Then rename the vc6qodem.exe produced to qodem.exe and use InnoSetup with the build/win32/qodem-isetup.iss script to create the final installer.

Some known issues of the Win32 build are:

• Mouse buttons work, but mouse tracking does not. This is due to a difference in how the PDCurses library handles mouse behavior compared to ncurses.
• SSH support is only provided by cryptlib. Some OpenSSH servers are configured such that cryptlib cannot connect to them. It is hoped that a future version of cryptlib supports ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Salsa. (Minimally tested libssh2 support is also present in a separate git branch.)
• Serial port support is very experimental.
• Files are stored under the current user's documents folder (typically My Documents or Documents) in a single folder called qodem. qodem\prefs\qodemrc.txt contains the configuration options.
• LOCAL connections spawn cmd.exe. cmd.exe will not respond to any input until the user presses Enter.
• Quicklearn scripts are still written in Perl. All scripts assume that "perl" will run them. Strawberry Perl is recommended.

Dependencies

Qodem relies on external code/libraries:

• On Windows, Qodem uses cryptlib for ssh client and host sshd server support. On Unix, Qodem defaults to using only the standard system ssh for client support and no sshd host mode at all unless --enable-ssh is passed to configure.
• Qodem packages its own modified version of PDCurses for the X11 build.
• A modified version of the PDCurses win32a fork is used for the Win32 build.
• Qodem packages miniupnpc for UPnP support in host mode.

Building Qodem

Qodem uses GNU autoconf, but may have problems on some less-tested platforms (e.g. BSD, OSX). For those who wish to get a working binary, a much simpler makefile is provided in build/Makefile.generic. Execute make -f build/Makefile.generic clean qodem to build. CFLAGS and LDLIBS may need to be adjusted to suit.