1Net-OICQ 2 3This module implements OICQ protocol, used by the instant messaging service 4operated by Tencent Technology Limited, China. 5 6INSTALLATION 7 8To install this module, run the following commands in the source directory: 9 10 perl Build.PL 11 ./Build 12 ./Build test 13 ./Build install 14 15Or, you can use Makefile.PL if you have make command: 16 17 perl Makefile.PL 18 make test 19 make install 20 21A command-line QQ client named qq will be installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin 22directory. This program requires Term::ANSIColor and Term::ReadKey modules. 23 24 25NOTE 26 27If you have installed version 0.7 or earlier version of Net::OICQ, please 28uninstall the old version by running the following commands as root: 29 30 find /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl -name OICQ -exec rm -r \{\} \; 31 32or 33 34 find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl -name OICQ -exec rm -r \{\} \; 35 36 37DEPENDENCIES 38 39This module requires Digest::MD5 perl module, which can be downloaded from CPAN 40if it is not already installed on your system. 41 42Net::OICQ also requires Crypt::OICQ, which used to be part of Net::OICQ and is 43a separate module since Version 0.8 of Net::OICQ. 44 45ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 46 47FreeOICQ developers reverse-engineered Tencent's Win32 client code and 48published their source codes on the Internet. I would never be able to write 49Net::OICQ without access to FreeOICQ source codes. 50 51Chen Peng reverse-engineered the assembly codes created by FreeOICQ and kindly 52made available his C source codes for the cipher used in OICQ. 53 54COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE 55 56Copyright (c) 2003 - 2007 Shufeng Tan. All rights reserved. 57 58This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express 59or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified 60under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see 61http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html) 62 63