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Installation Notes:
To start, you need the qt library already installed and ready to use.
After this is done, edit the Makefiles in both xIrc and libX++ to reflect
where it resides. Also in the makefile for xIrc you will find an entry for
where the libX++ library and it's headers can be found. Adjust it
accordingly. These are the only changes that should be needed. Though, if
you have some strange locations as to where your standard include files
and libraries reside, you may need to modify the Compiler and Loader flag
lines also. On my system, I have a links up in /usr/local/include and
/usr/local/lib to the directory where libX++ resides. One day when it
stabilizes, these will be it's real home :)).
After you have modified the makefiles to fit your system, change
directory to the libX++ source directory and type 'make depend; make'.
This will build the static library. When it is complete, change
directory to xIrc and type 'make depend; make' again. This should
build the irc application.
I have found that after building xIrc, that stripping it of it's symbol
info greatly reduces it's size and I can't help but expect that to reduce
its load time and running overhead. From it's directory, type in
'strip xIrc'
to do this deed for you. Since upgrading to qt-0.94 and gcc-2.7.2, the
reduction has does not seem to be as substantial
Copy the xIrc.defaults to the directory where you plan to use it from,
say your home directory, and modify it to suit your needs.
As of xIrc-1.15 there is the pixmap file xIrc.ppm which needs to be
placed where the xIrc can find it. xIrc looks by default in
/usr/local/lib, the current directory (./) and your home directory for
it. This may be changed through the resources. This file was derived
from the file xIrc.xpm using the program xv.
Good luck and happy Ircing.
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