annotate src/protocols/silc/README @ 14011:735c4e927eb8

[gaim-migrate @ 16603] wabz says: "gaim_strdup_withhtml in util.c is purely for converting linebreaks to <br> - some protocols use it for various reasons, but not msn - not sure where it's done for that (might not be? gtkconv doesnt use gaim_markup_strip_html). i reckon since you're using gaim_markup_strip_html, you may as well play it safe and just use gaim_strdup_withhtml before the strip?" So let's do it until GntTextView can parse html. (after all, that's 20% of the users ;) ) 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.