Irssi installation instructions ------------------------------- To compile Irssi you need: - meson-0.53 build system with ninja-1.8 or greater - glib-2.32 or greater - openssl (for ssl support) - perl-5.8 or greater (for building, and optionally Perl scripts) - terminfo or ncurses (for text frontend) For most people, this should work just fine: meson Build ninja -C Build su ninja -C Build install meson options These options can be given to meson. For a complete list of options, run meson configure --prefix Specifies the path where Irssi will be installed. YES, you can install Irssi WITHOUT ROOT permissions by using --prefix=/home/dir -Dwith-proxy=yes Build the Irssi proxy (see startup-HOWTO). -Dwith-perl=[yes|no] Enable Perl support yes enable builtin (default) no disable -Dwith-perl-lib=[site|vendor|DIR] Specify installation dir for Perl libraries site install in dir for site-specific modules (default) vendor install in dir for vendor-specific modules DIR install in DIR -Dwith-bot=yes Build irssi-bot -Dwithout-textui=yes Build without text frontend If anything is in non-standard path, you can just give the paths in the -Dc_args and -Dc_link_args options variable, eg.: meson Build -Dc_args='-I/opt/openssl/include' -Dc_link_args='-L/opt/openssl/lib' Perl problems ------------- Perl support generates most of the problems. There's quite a many things that can go wrong: - If there's any weird crashing at startup, you might have older irssi's perl libraries installed somewhere, and you should remove those. - If meson complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do apt-get install libperl-dev You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD" command. It should print something like: Module Type Submodules ... perl dynamic fe core System specific notes --------------------- Android When cross compiling Irssi for Android, you can specify the path of the cross-perl in the cross file. You may not have a cross-perl available. In that case, you will have to manually supply the required Perl arguments in the cross file. See the commented properties in the example cross file. An example cross file can be found in the docs folder. To use it, you would call: meson Build --cross-file cross-android-aarch64.txt \ --prefix /data/data/com.termux/files/usr \ --libdir lib \ -Dfhs-prefix=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr \ Cygwin Getting perl scripting to work needs a few things: - TODO Apple MacOS / Darwin At the time of writing, meson has an open issue with correctly linking libraries on macos. See docs/meson-macos-ar.txt for a workaround.