COMPILING ON WIN32 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is not easy! Be warned! You need either one of these compilers: * Mingw (http://www.mingw.org) * MS Visual C Note: This source code is meant for Linux/Unix like systems. Compiling this for Windows will produce a below-par quality product. The official XChat for Windows is not built with this unix source code. Getting GTK ~~~~~~~~~~~ You also need GTK+ 2.10 for win32. Altough the GTK packages from the GIMP website are larger and harder to install they work very well. 1) Get the following packages from: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html - gtk+-2.4.3.tar.gz - gtk+-dev-2.4.3.tar.gz - dirent.zip - gettext-runtime-0.13.1.zip - gettext-tools-0.13.1.zip - atk-1.6.0.zip - atk-dev-1.6.0.zip - pango-1.4.0.zip - pango-dev-1.4.0.zip - libpng (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libpng.htm) Binaries & Developer files. - GNU libiconv (Not source files) - glib-2.4.2.zip - glib-dev-2.4.2.zip - pkgconfig-0.15.zip - Zlib121-dll.zip 2) Extract all files to a suitable place such as c:\devtools 3) Windows 2000, XP & 2003 users: - Start->(Settings->)Control Panel->System Applet - Advanced Tab->Environment Variables - Under "User variables for " append ";C:\devtools" to the end of the PATH Variable - Click Ok twice and close the Control Panel For Windows 9x users your basicly on your own for now. Mingw ~~~~~ I havn't tried this yet, but ./configure --disable-xlib would be a start. MS Visual C ~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Edit src\makeinc.msc You need to change the variables GLIB, GTK and LIBS to point the correct paths for your harddrive. Use the program pkg-config to find this information. a) paste the output of `pkg-config glib-2.0 --msvc-syntax --cflags` to the GLIB = ... line. b) paste the output of `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --msvc-syntax --cflags` to the GTK = ... line. c) paste the output of `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --msvc-syntax --libs` to the LIBS = ... line. 2) In MSVC's includes directory, copy io.h to unistd.h. MS VC++ 6 ~~~~~~~~~ 3) Download Platform SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ (you only need Core SDK) - ~200 MB Download (Be warned). 4) Open the build enviroment. a) If your planning on developing modifications to the HexChat code go: Start->Programs->Microsoft Platform SDK...->Open Build Enviroment...->(Choose OS)->... (Debug) b) If your compiling just to use HexChat and wish to no recieve debug messages: Start->Programs->Microsoft Platform SDK...->Open Build Enviroment...->(Choose OS)->... (Retail) 5) Change directory into where you have download the HexChat source to and type this: cd src nmake -f makefile.msc clean nmake -f makefile.msc 6) Copy fe-gtk\hexchat.exe to another place. MS VC++ 7 (.NET) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3) Open the Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt 4) Change directory into where you have download the HexChat source to and type this: cd src nmake -f makefile.msc clean nmake -f makefile.msc 5) Copy fe-gtk\hexchat.exe to another place. Common problems: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * gdk-pixbuf-csource must be in PATH. FIX: See step 3 for setting up GTK * You might need to install dirent.zip manually. FIX: Copy C:\devtools\include\dirent.h to C:\devtools\include\glib-2.0\dirent.h * Include path to libintl.h should be in GLIB= (makeinc.msc). FIX: Copy C:\devtools\include\libintl.h to C:\devtools\include\glib-2.0\libintl.h