WeeChat
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Homepage: https://weechat.org/
Features
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Modular chat client with a lightweight core and optional plugins.
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Multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & other).
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Multi-protocols architecture (mainly IRC).
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Compliant with IRC RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812 and 2813.
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Small, fast and very light.
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Customizable and extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Guile, Javascript).
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Fully documented and translated into several languages.
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Developed from scratch.
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Free software, released under GPLv3.
Install
Dependencies
Following packages are required:
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CMake
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libncurses
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libcurl
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zlib
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libgcrypt
Following packages are optional:
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for i18n: gettext
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for SSL: gnutls, ca-certificates
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for spell checking: aspell
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for scripting: python, perl, ruby, lua, tcl, guile, libv8 (javascript)
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for building doc: asciidoc, source-highlight (for man page: xsltproc, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl)
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for building tests: C++ compiler, CppUTest
For a complete list of dependencies and versions recommended, please look at user’s guide.
Compile
WeeChat can be built with CMake (recommended) or autotools.
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Note
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Only CMake is officially supported to build WeeChat. You should only use
autotools if you are not able to use CMake. Building with autotools requires more dependencies and is slower than with CMake. |
$ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/directory $ make $ make install (as root for installation in system directories)
For more information or installation with autotools, please look at user’s guide.
Copyright
Copyright © 2003-2016 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/.