-In order to compile the SILC Plugin (instead of the SILC Client), pass the
-following options to configure, if your Irssi is installed into /usr:
+Compiling SILC Plugin for Irssi
+===============================
+
+In order to compile the SILC Plugin (instead of the SILC Client), pass
+the following options to configure, if your Irssi is installed into
+/usr/bin/irssi and /usrlib/irssi:
--prefix=/usr
--with-silc-plugin
--without-silc-includes
+ --enable-shared
-If your Irssi is installed in some other location than /usr, then pass its
-location to --prefix and --with-silc-plugin, for example:
+If your Irssi is installed in some other location than /usr/lib, then
+pass its location to --prefix and --with-silc-plugin, for example:
--prefix=/usr/local
--with-silc-plugin=/usr/local/lib/irssi
--without-silc-includes
+ --enable-shared
+
+On some Linux systems Irssi libs may actually be in /usr/lib64/irssi.
+In that case pass that path as argument to --with-silc-plugin.
+
+Depending on your OS/architecture you may also need to pass the
+following options to configure:
+
+ --with-pic
+ --without-pthreads
+
+
+Using SILC Plugin with Irssi
+============================
+
+After you have compiled and installed the plugin, you can load the
+plugin in Irssi using:
+
+ /LOAD silc
+
+You can configure the SILC plugin run time with the /SILC command. See
+the help with:
+
+ /HELP silc/silc
+
+To list all SILC commands available, use normal /HELP command. To get
+help about specific SILC command, use (replace <command> with the command
+of your choice):
+
+ /HELP silc/<command>
+
+For a more detailed help on SILC commands or some FAQs, please refer to
+the SILCNet homepage. Once you have successfully load the SILC plugin,
+you can connect to the SILCNet:
+
+ /SERVER silc.silcnet.org
+
+or,
+
+ /CONNECT -silcnet SILCNet silc.silcnet.org
+
+You might want to join the channel "silc" then...
+
+ /JOIN -silcnet silc
-Depending on your OS/architecture you may also need to pass the following
-options to configure:
+If you have compiled Irssi with perl support, you should also load the
+silc and silc-mime scripts:
- --with-pic --without-pthreads
+ /SCRIPT LOAD silc
+ /SCRIPT LOAD silc-mime