Thank you for downloading irssi-win32-0.8.12 from http://joshdick.net.

This package includes Perl scripting support, and is a modified, updated version of the irssi-win32-0.8.10 package assembled by Nei, available at http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2007/01/irssi_0810_for_windows_cygwinw/inde x.html For more information about this package, see Nei's original README below. If you wish to compile Irssi 0.8.12 for Windows yourself, here are build instruc tions (adapted from Nei's): 1) Install Cygwin (available at http://cygwin.com), adding the following packages to the default configuration: a. Devel/gcc-core b. Devel/gcc-g++ c. Devel/gettext d. Devel/gettext-devel (missing libintl.a) e. Devel/libncurses-devel (terminfo support) f. Devel/make g. Devel/pkgconfig (detects glib2) h. Interpreters/perl i. Libs/glib2 j. Libs/glib2-devel k. Libs/openssl l. Libs/openssl-devel 2) Download the irssi source code from http://irssi.org and save it to C :/cygwin/home/<username> 3) Open a Cygwin terminal, and run the following commands: tar xzvf irssi-*.tar.gz cd ./irssi-* (If you'd like Perl support:) CFLAGS='-DUSEIMPORTLIB' ./configure --with-proxy --with-perl-sta ticlib --prefix=/cygdrive/c/irssi (If you don't want Perl support:) CFLAGS='-DUSEIMPORTLIB' ./configure --with-proxy --with-perl=no --prefix=/cygdrive/c/irssi make make install 4) Now you can start irssi with C:/irssi/bin/irssi.exe from inside the C ygwin terminal. 5) If you didn't opt for Perl support, skip to step 6. If you did opt fo r Perl support, and you want to distribute your compiled binary, you can copy th e /lib/perl5/5.8 folder from your Cygwin installation into the corresponding fol der of your irssi directory tree, overwriting everything inside the existing 5.8 directory, and then move the contents of irssi/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin into irssi/ lib/perl/5.8, overwriting files that are already there. You can delete the now-e mpty 'cygwin' directory inside irssi/lib/perl5/5.8. 6) Copy the batch files, terminfo folder, and startup file included in t his package to the root of your irssi directory tree. Appropriate Cygwin DLLs an d PuTTYcyg need to be copied to the /bin directory of your irssi directory tree

in order for irssi to be distributable, and to work with the batch files and com mand scripts included in this package. This release was made possible by: The Irssi team (http://www.irssi.org/) #irssi at IRCnet (irc://open.ircnet.net/#irssi), and of course, Nei (http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2007/01/irssi_0810_for_ windows_cygwinw/index.html). Note that this package includes the 20071011 release of PuTTYcyg. Enjoy! Josh Dick josh@joshdick.net Below the README originally distributed with Nei's irssi-win32-0.8.10 package. -------------------------------------------Build instructions are available on http://anti.teamidiot.de/nei/2007/01/irssi_0810_for_windows_cygwinw/#mor e Running ~~~ Simply start irssi.cmd to run Irssi in PuTTY or irssi-cmd.cmd to run Irssi in the default Windows terminal emulator. The *.bat files are for Windows 9x / ME, but see below. Titlebar ~~~~ If you want to have a meaningful titlebar, you can copy the startup file to N:/Documents and Settings/Yourname/.irssi/startup %USERPROFILE%/.irssi/startup %HOMEPATH%/.irssi/startup Alternatively you can get a more featured titlebar script on http://scripts.irssi.org/ Windows 9x / ME ~~~~~~~ This package does not officially support Windows 9x / ME. But I have included Old-Windows start files nonetheless. You can try to get it running by starting irssi.bat to run Irssi in PuTTY or irssi-cmd.bat to run Irssi in the default Windows terminal emulator. If the Irssi crashes on /quit, just ignore it :). About Cygwin paths

~~~~~~~~~ A note to computer users without Cygwin experience: You can find your drive contents in /cygdrive/driveletter/, for example: /cygdrive/n/Documents and Settings/Nei/Desktop/hello.mp3 Please note that Irssi's file completion is broken for filenames containing spaces. You CAN use these files e.g. in DCC sends, but you have to come up with the whole path on your own. Ex.: /dcc send Nei "/cygrive/n/Documents and Settings/Nei/x.y" Note the required "" to enclose your filename if it contains spaces. Responsible ~~~~~ This Irssi/Cygwin package was created by Nei. Reachable on QuakeNet with the account name ailin. http://anti.teamidiot.de/