4 This is the Purple protocol plugin of the protocol called Secure Internet
5 Live Conferencing (SILC). The implementation will use the SILC Toolkit,
6 freely available from the http://silcnet.org/ site, for the actual SILC
7 protocol implementation.
9 To include SILC into Purple, one needs to first compile and install
10 the SILC Toolkit. It is done as follows:
16 This will compile shared libraries of the SILC Toolkit. If the --prefix
17 is not given to ./configure, the binaries are installed into the
18 /usr/local/silc directory.
20 Once the Toolkit is installed one needs to tell Purple's ./configure
21 script where the SILC Toolkit is located. It is done as simply as:
25 if pkg-config is installed in your system. If it is isn't it's done as:
27 ./configure --with-silc-libs=/path/to/silc/lib
28 --with-silc-includes=/path/to/silc/include
30 If the SILC Toolkit cannot be found then the SILC protocol plugin will