libircclient - a IRC library to create IRC clients

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Introduction

libircclient is a small but powerful library, which implements client-server IRC protocol. It is designed to be small, fast, portable and compatible to RFC standards, and most IRC clients. libircclient features include:

Full multi-threading support.
Single threads handles all the IRC processing.
Support for single-threaded applications, and socket-based applications, which use select()
Synchronous and asynchronous interfaces.
CTCP support with optional build-in reply code.
Flexible DCC support, including both DCC chat, and DCC file transfer.
Can both initiate and react to initiated DCC.
Can accept or decline DCC sessions asynchronously.
Plain C interface and implementation (possible to use from C++ code, obviously)
Compatible with RFC 1459 and most IRC clients.
Free, licensed under LGPL license.
Good documentation and examples available.

Compilation on Unix

To compile libircclient, unpack the distribution, and do the standard mantra:

 # ./configure
 # make
 # make install

Compilation under MS Windows

To compile libircclient under MS Windows:

open the src/win32/libircclient.dsw file;
select the appropriate library linkage (static or dynamic), and debug/release version;
do 'Make build'

You can also build the example using spammer.dsp project file. Here you can see how to integrate libircclient into your own project.

Documentation

Documentation is not installed with make install; you should copy it somewhere by hand. There is html documentation (in doc/html) and manual pages (doc/man). It is also recommended to check the examples directory, there are a few examples, they'll help you.

Cocoa Support

There is an experimental Cocoa framework wrapper around libircclient, called IRCClient. You can find the Xcode project and source in the cocoa/ directory in the current trunk.

Author, copyright, support.

If you have any questions, bug reports, suggestions regarding libircclient - please send them to gyunaev@ulduzsoft.com.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.