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Nice: GLib ICE library
======================

Copyright
---------

 (C) 2006-2017 Collabora Ltd.
 (C) 2006-2011 Nokia Corporation

License
-------

See the file COPYING.

Requirements
------------

 glib >= 2.44
 pkg-config
 gnutls >= 2.12.0 or OpenSSL
 gupnp-igd >= 0.1.2 (optional)
 gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.0 (optional)
 gstreamer-1.0 (optional)

Build instructions
------------------

To build on Linux and Mac, you only need to type the usual commands :
  ./configure && make && sudo make install
Please refer to the INSTALL file for more details.
If you are building from git, you must first run the ./autogen.sh script
to generate the configure file for you.

To build on Windows, please refer to the README.win32 file for build instructions
using Microsoft Visual Studio.

Structure
---------

 agent/   - ICE agent
 docs/    - Design and API documentation
 gst/     - Gstreamer elements
 nice/    - libnice library
 random/  - random number generation
 socket/  - Socket abstraction layer
 stun/    - STUN implementation
 tests/   - Unit tests

Relevant standards
------------------

These standards are relevant to nice's current implementation.

ICE RFC 5245
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5245
STUN
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3489
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5389
TURN 
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5766
RTP
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3550
XMPP Jingle ICE transport
  http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0176.html

In future, nice may additionally support the following standards.

NAT-PMP
  http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-nat-pmp.txt