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Introduction
~~~

Thank you for downloading irssi-win32-0.8.12.

This package includes Perl scripting support, as well as the 20071011 release of PuTTYcyg.


Credits
~~~

This package is a modified, updated version of the irssi-win32-0.8.10 package assembled by Nei, available at
	
	http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2007/01/irssi_0810_for_windows_cygwinw/index.html

This README is based on Nei's informative original README, which is included below.

The irssi-win32-0.8.12 binary included in this package was compiled under Cygwin and assembled by Josh Dick.
The NSIS installer script for this package was created by Sebastian Pipping and Josh Dick. 

This package was made possible by:
	The Irssi team (http://www.irssi.org/)
	#irssi at IRCnet (irc://open.ircnet.net/#irssi),
	Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com),
	NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net),
	and of course, Nei (http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2007/01/irssi_0810_for_windows_cygwinw/index.html).

Enjoy!

-Josh Dick <josh@joshdick.net>
-Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>


Build Instructions
~~~

If you wish to compile Irssi 0.8.12 for Windows yourself, here are build instructions:

	1) Install Cygwin (available at http://cygwin.com), adding the following packages to the default configuration:
		a. Devel/gcc-core
		b. Devel/gcc-g++
		c. Devel/gettext
		d. Devel/gettext-devel (missing libintl.a)
		e. Devel/libncurses-devel (terminfo support)
		f. Devel/make
		g. Devel/pkgconfig (detects glib2)
		h. Interpreters/perl
		i. Libs/glib2
		j. Libs/glib2-devel
		k. Libs/openssl
		l. Libs/openssl-devel
		   
	2) Download the irssi source code from http://irssi.org and save it to C:/cygwin/home/<username>
	
	3) Open a Cygwin terminal, and run the following commands:
		tar xzvf irssi-*.tar.gz
		cd ./irssi-*

		(If you'd like Perl support:)
		CFLAGS='-DUSEIMPORTLIB' ./configure --with-proxy --with-perl-staticlib --prefix=/cygdrive/c/irssi

		(If you don't want Perl support:)
		CFLAGS='-DUSEIMPORTLIB' ./configure --with-proxy --with-perl=no --prefix=/cygdrive/c/irssi

		make
		make install
			
	4) Now you can start irssi with C:/irssi/bin/irssi.exe from inside the Cygwin terminal.
	
	5) If you didn't opt for Perl support, skip to step 6. If you did opt for Perl support, and you want to distribute your compiled binary, you can copy the /lib/perl5/5.8 folder from your Cygwin installation into the corresponding folder of your irssi directory tree, overwriting everything inside the existing 5.8 directory, and then move the contents of irssi/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin into irssi/lib/perl/5.8, overwriting files that are already there. You can delete the now-empty 'cygwin' directory inside irssi/lib/perl5/5.8.

	6) Copy the batch files, terminfo folder, and startup file included in this package to the root of your irssi directory tree. Appropriate Cygwin DLLs and PuTTYcyg need to be copied to the /bin directory of your irssi directory tree in order for irssi to be distributable and to work with the batch files and command scripts included in this package.


Old README
~~~
	
Below the README originally distributed with Nei's irssi-win32-0.8.10 package.

--------------------------------------------

Build instructions are available on

	http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2007/01/irssi_0810_for_windows_cygwinw/#more

Running
~~~

Simply start irssi.cmd to run Irssi in PuTTY or irssi-cmd.cmd to
run Irssi in the default Windows terminal emulator.
The *.bat files are for Windows 9x / ME, but see below.


Titlebar
~~~~

If you want to have a meaningful titlebar, you can copy the
startup file to

	N:/Documents and Settings/Yourname/.irssi/startup
	%USERPROFILE%/.irssi/startup
	%HOMEPATH%/.irssi/startup

Alternatively you can get a more featured titlebar script on

	http://scripts.irssi.org/


Windows 9x / ME
~~~~~~~

This package does not officially support Windows 9x / ME. But I
have included Old-Windows start files nonetheless.
You can try to get it running by starting irssi.bat to run Irssi
in PuTTY or irssi-cmd.bat to run Irssi in the default Windows
terminal emulator.
If the Irssi crashes on /quit, just ignore it :).


About Cygwin paths
~~~~~~~~~

A note to computer users without Cygwin experience:
You can find your drive contents in /cygdrive/driveletter/, for
example:

	/cygdrive/n/Documents and Settings/Nei/Desktop/hello.mp3

Please note that Irssi's file completion is broken for filenames
containing spaces. You CAN use these files e.g. in DCC sends,
but you have to come up with the whole path on your own. Ex.:

	/dcc send Nei "/cygrive/n/Documents and Settings/Nei/x.y"

Note the required "" to enclose your filename if it contains
spaces.


Responsible
~~~~~

This Irssi/Cygwin package was created by Nei. Reachable on
QuakeNet with the account name ailin.

http://anti.teamidiot.de/