annotate libpurple/protocols/silc10/README @ 25947:4b8c4870b13a

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author Elliott Sales de Andrade <qulogic@pidgin.im>
date Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:18:40 +0000
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1 SILC Purple Plugin
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2 ==================
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4 This is the Purple protocol plugin of the protocol called Secure Internet
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5 Live Conferencing (SILC). The implementation will use the SILC Toolkit,
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6 freely available from the http://silcnet.org/ site, for the actual SILC
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7 protocol implementation.
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9 To include SILC into Purple, one needs to first compile and install
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10 the SILC Toolkit. It is done as follows:
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12 ./configure --enable-shared
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13 make
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14 make install
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16 This will compile shared libraries of the SILC Toolkit. If the --prefix
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17 is not given to ./configure, the binaries are installed into the
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18 /usr/local/silc directory.
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20 Once the Toolkit is installed one needs to tell Purple's ./configure
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21 script where the SILC Toolkit is located. It is done as simply as:
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23 ./configure
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25 if 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
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28 --with-silc-includes=/path/to/silc/include
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30 If the SILC Toolkit cannot be found then the SILC protocol plugin will
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31 not be compiled.