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

protocol implementation.

To include SILC into Purple, one needs to first compile and install

the SILC Toolkit. It is done as follows:

./configure

make

make install

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:

./configure

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

not be compiled.