= WeeChat
:author: Sébastien Helleu
:email: flashcode@flashtux.org
:lang: en


WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat
environment for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
It is customizable and extensible with scripts.

Homepage: http://weechat.org/


== Features

* Modular chat client with a lightweight core and optional plugins.
* Multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & other).
* Multi-protocols architecture (mainly IRC).
* Compliant with IRC RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812 and 2813.
* Small, fast and very light.
* Customizable and extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Guile).
* Fully documented and translated into several languages.
* Developed from scratch.
* Free software, released under GPLv3.

image::http://static.weechat.org/images/screenshots/medium/weechat_2013-04-27_phlux_shadow.png[align="center"]

== Install

=== Dependencies

Following packages are *required*:

* CMake
* libncurses
* libcurl
* zlib
* libgcrypt

Following packages are optional:

* for i18n: gettext
* for SSL: gnutls, ca-certificates
* for spell checking: aspell
* for scripting: python, perl, ruby, lua, tcl, guile
* for building doc: asciidoc, source-highlight
  (for man page: xsltproc, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl)

For a complete list of dependencies and versions recommended, please look at
http://weechat.org/doc[user's guide].

=== Compile

WeeChat can be built with http://cmake.org/[CMake] (recommended) or autotools.

[NOTE]
Only CMake is officially supported to build WeeChat. You should use autotools
only if you are not able to use CMake. +
Build with autotools requires more dependencies and is slower than with CMake.

----
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DPREFIX=/path/to/directory
$ make
$ make install     (as root for installation in system directories)
----

For more information or installation with autotools, please look at
http://weechat.org/doc[user's guide].

== Copyright

Copyright (C) 2003-2014 Sébastien Helleu <flashcode@flashtux.org>

This file is part of WeeChat, the extensible chat client.

WeeChat is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

WeeChat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with WeeChat.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.