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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9153e93 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ + + Irssi installation instructions + ------------------------------- + +First of all, you need GLib to compile irssi. If you don't have it +already, you can either install it or let irssi download & compile it. +The automatic downloading works only if you have wget or ncftpget +installed, you can do it manually by unpacking glib sources to irssi's +root dir. + +For most people, this should work just fine: + + ./configure + make + su + make install (not _really_ required except for perl support) + +You may want to give some parameters to configure, here's the most +commonly used ones: + + --prefix - Specifies the path where irssi will be installed. + YES, you can install irssi WITHOUT ROOT permissions + by using --prefix=/home/dir + --with-proxy - Build the irssi proxy (see startup-HOWTO). + --enable-ipv6 - Enable IPv6 support. + +If GLib or ncurses is installed installed in a non-standard path you can +specify it with --with-glib=/path and --with-ncurses=/path. + +Irssi doesn't really need curses anymore, by default it uses +terminfo/termcap directly. The functions for using terminfo/termcap +however are usually only in curses library, some systems use libtermcap +as well. If you want to use only curses calls for some reason, use +--without-terminfo. + + + Perl problems + ------------- + +Perl support generates most of the problems. There's quite a many +things that can go wrong: + + - Perl 5.004 doesn't work by default, you'll need to edit + src/perl/irssi-core.pl and remove all lines with "delete_package" + in them. + - Compiling fails if you compile irssi with GCC in a system that has + perl compiled with some other C compiler. Very common problem with + non-Linux/BSD systems. You'll need to edit src/perl/*/Makefile files + and remove the parameters that gcc doesn't like. Mostly you'll just + need to keep the -I and -D parameters and add -fPIC. + - If there's any weird crashing at startup, you might have older irssi's + perl libraries installed somewhere, and you should remove those. + - Dynamic libraries don't want to work with some systems, so if your + system complains about some missing symbol in Irssi.so file, configure + irssi with --with-perl-staticlib option (NOT same as --with-perl=static). + - If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're + probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do + apt-get install libperl-dev + +You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD" +command. It should print something like: + +Module Type Submodules +... +perl static core fe @@ -3,11 +3,16 @@ irssi, http://irssi.org + * INSTALLATION + +See INSTALL file. + + * FILES - docs/ directory contains several documents: - startup-HOWTO.txt - new users should read this - - manual.txt - manual I started writing but didn't get it finished :) + - manual.txt - manual I started writing but didn't get it very far :) - perl.txt - Perl scripting help - formats.txt - How to use colors, etc. with irssi - faq.txt - Frequently Asked Questions @@ -107,5 +112,5 @@ See TODO file if it is already listed in there - if not send me email.. - Timo Sirainen - tss@iki.fi - - cras@ircnet/efnet/opn/silc - - #irssi@ircnet/opn + - cras at ircnet/opn/silc + - #irssi at ircnet/opn, #irssi.fi at ircnet diff --git a/docs/perl.txt b/docs/perl.txt index 16ff18c0..0d779a8e 100644 --- a/docs/perl.txt +++ b/docs/perl.txt @@ -1,33 +1,9 @@ Installation problems --------------------- -You'll need to have perl support compiled with irssi. make install is -also required to make them work. There's quite a many things that may -go wrong with perl: - - - 5.004 doesn't work by default, you'll need to edit - src/perl/irssi-core.pl and remove all lines with "delete_package" - in them - - Compiling fails if you compile irssi with GCC in a system that has - perl compiled with some other C compiler. Very common problem with - non-Linux/BSD systems. You'll need to edit src/perl/*/Makefile files - and remove the parameters that gcc doesn't like. Mostly you'll just - need to keep the -I and -D parameters and add -fPIC. - - If there's any weird crashing at startup, you might have older irssi's - perl libraries installed somewhere, and you should remove those. - - Dynamic libraries don't want to work with some systems, so if your - system complains about some missing symbol in Irssi.so file, configure - irssi with --with-perl-staticlib option (NOT same as --with-perl=static). - - If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're - probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do - apt-get install libperl-dev - -You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD" -command. It should print something like: - -Module Type Submodules -... -perl static core fe +You'll need to have perl support compiled with irssi. If "/LOAD" +doesn't show perl in list of loaded modules, you have a problem. See +INSTALL file for information about perl problems. Running scripts |