Telodendria

Telodendria is a Matrix homeserver in alpha written in C99(previously C89), that aims to extremely powerful yet lightweight, while all being as POSIX-compliant as possible.

Telodendria is still in heavy development and isn't excepting a non-federating release until January 2025.

Compiling Telodendria from Git

Telodendria only needs a few dependencies: Cytoplasm (which can be built at the same time), a POSIX-compliant libc (with pthread support), and an optional TLS library(OpenSSL/LibreSSL).

To build it, you can first install Cytoplasm if your distribution supports it. On Arch, you can use the AUR to install cytoplasm-git.

Then, clone and setup Telodendria with the following

$ git clone https://git.telodendria.io/Telodendria/Telodendria # use --recurse-submodules if Cytoplasm wasn't already installed
$ cd Telodendria

# If Cytoplasm wasn't already installed
$ cd Cytoplasm
$ ./configure # --disable-tls if you do not have OpenSSL or LibreSSL
$ make # You can use -j[jobs] there
$ cd ..

Now, build it with

$ ./configure # in the Telodendria directory
$ make # You can use -j[jobs] here

If you didn't already install Cytoplasm, make sure to either move the generated shared library (Cytoplasm/out/lib/libCytoplasm.so) to a standard search path by using make install, or add its directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for testing.

Then, to test that Telodendria works, one can run on its directory

$ ./out/bin/telodendria

It should log No database directory specified. before shutting down.