annotate src/protocols/silc/README @ 12167:5851a9219bc7

[gaim-migrate @ 14468] Some SILC fixes from Pekka for whiteboard support, preferences, and documentation. Let's hear a big thanks to Pekka for keeping up with this stuff! Enclosed patch fixes couple crashbugs from the SILC whiteboard code, fixes the preferences (which are not used anymore in Gaim) by eliminating some of the old preferences and moving some of the preferences to account options, and introduces Create SILC Key Pair protocol action which can be used to generate new SILC key pair from Gaim. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

SILC Gaim Plugin
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This is Gaim protocol plugin of the protocol called Secure Internet Live 
Conferencing (SILC).  The implementation will use the SILC Toolkit, 
freely available from the http://silcnet.org/ site, for the actual SILC 
protocol implementation.

To include the SILC into Gaim, one needs to first compile and install 
the SILC Toolkit.  It is done as follows:

	./configure --enable-shared
	make
	make install

This will compile shared libraries of the SILC Toolkit.  If the --prefix 
is not given to ./configure, the binaries are installed into the 
/usr/local/silc directory.

Once the Toolkit is installed one needs to tell for the Gaim ./configure
script where the SILC Toolkit is located.  It is done as simply as:

	./configure

if pkg-config is installed in your system.  If it is isn't it's done as:

	./configure --with-silc-libs=/path/to/silc/lib
		    --with-silc-includes=/path/to/silc/include

If the Toolkit cannot be located the SILC will not be compiled into the 
Gaim.