Introduction

Jami is a Voice-over-IP software phone. We want it to be:

• user friendly (fast, sleek, easy to learn interface)
• professional grade (transfers, holds, optimal audio quality)
• compatible with Asterisk (using SIP account)
• decentralized call (P2P-DHT)
• customizable

As the SIP/audio daemon and the user interface are separate processes, it is easy to provide different user interfaces. Jami comes with various graphical user interfaces and even scripts to control the daemon from the shell.

Jami is currently used by the support team of Savoir-faire Linux Inc.

More information is available on the project homepage: https://www.jami.net/

This source tree contains the daemon application only that handles the business logic of Jami. UIs are located in differents repositories. See the Contributing section for more information.

Short description of content of source tree

• src/ is the core of libjami.
• bin/ contains application and binding main code.
• bin/dbus, the D-Bus XML interfaces, and C++ bindings

About Savoir-faire Linux Inc.

Savoir-faire Linux Inc. is a consulting company based in Montreal, Quebec. For more information, please check out our website: https://www.savoirfairelinux.com/

How to compile on Linux

A) With CMake

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DJAMI_DBUS=On
make -j4

This should build the 'contrib' dependencies, then the daemon

B) With Meson

1. Compile the dependencies first

cd contrib
mkdir native
cd native
../bootstrap
make

2. Then the jamid application and/or libjami library

cd ../../
mkdir build
export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/contrib/`cc -dumpmachine`/bin
meson -Dpkg_config_path=`pwd`/contrib/`cc -dumpmachine`/lib/pkgconfig -Ddefault_library=static -Dinterfaces=dbus build
cd build
ninja
ninja install

C) With Autotools

1. Compile the dependencies first

cd contrib
mkdir native
cd native
../bootstrap
make

2. Then the jamid application and/or libjami library

cd ../..
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

How to compile the daemon for Android (on a Linux or macOS host)

A) With CMake

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$ANDROID_NDK/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_API=24 -DBUILD_EXTRA_TOOLS=On -DJAMI_JNI=On -DJAMI_JNI_PACKAGEDIR=java
make -j4

Replace arm64-v8a with the desired target ABI. See the README in jami-client-android for instructions to build the Jami client for Android.

B) With Meson

1. Download and install Android NDK
2. Compile the dependencies

export ANDROID_NDK=<NDK>
export ANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a
export ANDROID_API=24
export TOOLCHAIN=$ANDROID_NDK/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64
export TARGET=aarch64-linux-android
export CC=$TOOLCHAIN/bin/$TARGET$ANDROID_API-clang
export CXX=$TOOLCHAIN/bin/$TARGET$ANDROID_API-clang++
export AR=$TOOLCHAIN/bin/$TARGET-ar
export LD=$TOOLCHAIN/bin/$TARGET-ld
export RANLIB=$TOOLCHAIN/bin/$TARGET-ranlib
export STRIP=$TOOLCHAIN/bin/$TARGET-strip
export PATH=$PATH:$TOOLCHAIN/bin
cd contrib
mkdir native
cd native
../bootstrap --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=$TARGET$ANDROID_API
make

3. Update directories in the file /cross-files/android_arm64_api29.txt
4. Compile the library libjami.so

cd ../../
mkdir build
meson --cross-file `pwd`/cross-files/android_arm64_api29.txt build
cd build
ninja
ninja install

Note: to build the tests add -Dtests=true ; or it can be enabled later with meson --reconfigure -Dtests=true build

How to compile on macOS

These first steps are only necessary if you don't use a package manager.

cd extras/tools
./bootstrap
make
export PATH=$PATH:/location/of/daemon/extras/tools/build/bin

Or, use your favorite package manager to install the necessary tools (macports or brew): automake pkg-config libtool gettext yasm

How to compile on Windows

First, obtain and install pywinmake which is used to build the dependencies.

git clone "https://review.jami.net/pywinmake"
cd pywinmake
python -m pip install .

The rest of the build process uses CMake.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Compile the dependencies

cd contrib
mkdir native
cd native
../bootstrap
make -j

Then the daemon

cd ../../
./autogen.sh
./configure  --without-dbus --prefix=<install_path>
make

If you want to link against libjamiclient and native client easiest way is to add to ./configure: --prefix=<prefix_path>

Do a little dance!

How to compile in a Docker container

docker build --tag jami-daemon .

To build with custom build args

docker build --tag jami-daemon --build-arg cmake_args="-DJAMI_NODEJS=On" .

Common Issues

autopoint not found: When using Homebrew, autopoint is not found even when gettext is installed, because symlinks are not created. Run: 'brew link --force gettext' to fix it.

Contributing to Jami

Of course we love patches. And contributions. And spring rolls.

Development website / Bug Tracker:

• https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-project

Repositories are hosted on Gerrit, which we use for code review. It also contains the client subprojects:

• https://review.jami.net/#/admin/projects/

Do not hesitate to join us and post comments, suggestions, questions and general feedback on the Jami mailing-list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/jami

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Copyright (C) 2004-2025 Savoir-faire Linux Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.