[![Travis Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/kvirc/KVIrc/master.svg?label=Linux%20%2F%20OS%20X)](https://travis-ci.org/kvirc/KVIrc)
[![AppVeyor Build status](https://img.shields.io/appveyor/ci/DarthGandalf/KVIrc/master.svg?label=Windows)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/DarthGandalf/kvirc/branch/master)
[![Coverity Scan Build Status](https://img.shields.io/coverity/scan/6841.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/kvirc-coverity)

![KVIrc-Midnight](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/images/KVIrc-midnight.png)
<!--![KVIrc logo](../master/data/icons/128x128/kvirc.png "KVIrc - The visual IRC client for the masses!") -->

## About

Welcome, this is the GitHub development and bug tracker home for the KVIrc project.

KVIrc is a free and portable IRC client leveraging the Qt GUI toolkit.  
KVIrc is written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc development team, with the contribution and support of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

### Getting involved

- [Contributing](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Getting-involved-and-contributing)

### Help & Support

- [KVIrc - wiki - Homepage](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/home)
- [KVIrc manual](http://www.kvirc.net/doc)
- [KVIrc API](http://www.kvirc.net/api)
- [How to submit a bug report](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Submitting-a-bug-report)
- [Open a bug report or make a suggestion](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/issues)
- Talk to us - [Join #KVIrc](https://webchat.freenode.net?nick=kvirc-user&channels=%23kvirc&prompt=1&uio=OT10cnVlde) on freenode.net
- [KVIrc - Community forums](http://www.kvirc.ru/forum/)

---
Try one of our fresh off-the-press nightly development 32-bit or 64-bit builds for Windows, Ubuntu and Debian.
### [Downloads](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/wiki/Downloading-KVIrcs-nightly-source-or-binaries)

We're also looking for volunteer packagers and maintainers to other Linux distributions, that can help us extend KVIrc's availability in other OS's.

### Install and compile

Compiling KVIrc on your chosen platform is an alternative way to enjoy KVIrc, see below.

- [Linux install](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.txt)
- [macOS install](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/blob/master/doc/INSTALL-MacOS.txt)
- Windows [32-bit install](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/blob/master/doc/INSTALL-Win32.txt) or [64-bit install](https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/blob/master/doc/INSTALL-Win64.txt)

### Licensed under

[![KVIrc GPLv2+](https://img.shields.io/badge/KVIrc-GPLv2+-blue.svg)](./doc/LICENSE-GPLV2)
[![OpenSSL](https://img.shields.io/badge/OpenSSL-Licence-orange.svg)](./doc/LICENSE-OPENSSL)
[![OpenSSL exception](https://img.shields.io/badge/OpenSSL-Exception-orange.svg)](./doc/COPYING)
