Compiling SILC Plugin for Irssi
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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 /usr/lib/irssi:

	--prefix=/usr
	--with-silc-plugin
	--without-silc-includes
	--enable-shared

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

If you have compiled Irssi with perl support, you should also load the 
silc and silc-mime scripts:

        /SCRIPT LOAD silc
        /SCRIPT LOAD silc-mime