README
1SILC Purple Plugin
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3
4This is the Purple protocol plugin of the protocol called Secure Internet
5Live Conferencing (SILC). The implementation will use the SILC Toolkit,
6freely available from the http://silcnet.org/ site, for the actual SILC
7protocol implementation.
8
9To include SILC into Purple, one needs to first compile and install
10the SILC Toolkit. It is done as follows:
11
12 ./configure --enable-shared
13 make
14 make install
15
16This will compile shared libraries of the SILC Toolkit. If the --prefix
17is not given to ./configure, the binaries are installed into the
18/usr/local/silc directory.
19
20Once the Toolkit is installed one needs to tell Purple's ./configure
21script where the SILC Toolkit is located. It is done as simply as:
22
23 ./configure
24
25if pkg-config is installed in your system. If it is isn't it's done as:
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27 ./configure --with-silc-libs=/path/to/silc/lib
28 --with-silc-includes=/path/to/silc/include
29
30If the SILC Toolkit cannot be found then the SILC protocol plugin will
31not be compiled.
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