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Irssi installation instructions
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To compile Irssi you need:
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- meson-0.49 build system with ninja-1.5 or greater
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- glib-2.28 or greater
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- openssl (for ssl support)
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- perl-5.6 or greater (for Perl support)
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- terminfo or ncurses (for text frontend)
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For most people, this should work just fine:
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meson Build
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ninja -C Build
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su
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ninja -C Build install
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For the moment, autotools is also supported:
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./autogen.sh (for people who just cloned the repository)
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./configure (if this script already exists, skip ./autogen.sh)
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make
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su
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make install (not _really_ required except for perl support)
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configure options
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These options can be given to meson or ./configure.
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The first syntax is for meson, the 2nd for ./configure
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For a complete list of options, run
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meson configure / ./configure --help
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--prefix
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Specifies the path where Irssi will be installed.
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YES, you can install Irssi WITHOUT ROOT permissions
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by using --prefix=/home/dir
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-Dwith-proxy=yes / --with-proxy
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Build the Irssi proxy (see startup-HOWTO).
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-Dwith-perl=[yes|no] / --with-perl=[yes|no|module]
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Enable Perl support
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yes enable builtin (default)
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no disable
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module enable as module
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-Dwith-perl-lib=[site|vendor|DIR] / --with-perl-lib=[site|vendor|DIR]
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Specify installation dir for Perl libraries
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site install in dir for site-specific modules (default)
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vendor install in dir for vendor-specific modules
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DIR install in DIR
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[N/A] / --with-socks
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Build with socks library
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-Dwith-bot=yes / --with-bot
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Build irssi-bot
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-Dwithout-textui=yes / --without-textui
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Build without text frontend
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If anything is in non-standard path, you can just give the paths in
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the -Dc_args and -Dc_link_args options variable, eg.:
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meson Build -Dc_args='-I/opt/openssl/include' -Dc_link_args='-L/opt/openssl/lib'
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Perl problems
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-------------
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Perl support generates most of the problems. There's quite a many
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things that can go wrong:
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- Compiling fails if you compile irssi with GCC in a system that has
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perl compiled with some other C compiler. Very common problem with
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non-Linux/BSD systems. You'll need to edit src/perl/*/Makefile files
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and remove the parameters that gcc doesn't like. Mostly you'll just
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need to keep the -I and -D parameters and add -fPIC.
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- If there's any weird crashing at startup, you might have older irssi's
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perl libraries installed somewhere, and you should remove those.
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- Dynamic libraries don't want to work with some systems, so if your
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system complains about some missing symbol in Irssi.so file, configure
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irssi with --with-perl-staticlib option (NOT same as --with-perl=static).
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- If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're
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probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do
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apt-get install libperl-dev
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- For unprivileged home directory installations, you probably do not want
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to specify --with-perl-lib=(site|vendor). Instead, you can use the
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default perl installation target (below the irssi prefix). If you are
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using local::lib you can also choose to install there by specifying
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--with-perl-lib=$PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT/lib/perl5
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You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD"
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command. It should print something like:
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Module Type Submodules
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...
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perl static core fe
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System specific notes
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---------------------
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Android
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When cross compiling Irssi for Android, you can specify the path of
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the cross-perl in the cross file.
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You may not have a cross-perl available. In that case, you will have
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to manually supply the required Perl arguments in the cross file. See
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the commented properties in the example cross file.
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An example cross file can be found in the docs folder. To use it, you
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would call:
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meson Build --cross-file cross-android-aarch64.txt \
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--prefix /data/data/com.termux/files/usr \
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--libdir lib \
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-Dfhs-prefix=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr \
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Cygwin
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Getting perl scripting to work needs a few things:
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- configure with --with-perl-staticlib
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- libperl.dll is required in linking and running irssi, it's normally
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located somewhere around /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_1.dll
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copy it to eg. /usr/bin/libperl.dll
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- -DUSEIMPORTLIB is needed to be defined while compiling src/perl directory.
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It doesn't hurt to be defined everywhere, so configure irssi with:
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CFLAGS='-DUSEIMPORTLIB' ./configure --with-perl-staticlib
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