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