X-Chat Requirements: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - GTK 1.2.0+ (get it from http://www.gtk.org) Optional: - Gnome (1.00 or above only) (http://www.gnome.org) - Perl (http://www.perl.com) X-Chat Compiling and Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Type this: ./configure make (or gmake on some systems) Become root and type: make install Other Options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you do not have GNU Gettext installed, instead use: ./configure --disable-nls If you have installed GNOME in /usr, then you should use: (So the icon & .desktop file are installed in the right place) ./configure --prefix=/usr If you want to disable Gnome and/or Perl you can do: ./configure --disable-perl --disable-gnome If you want to enable use of SOCKS5 do: ./configure --enable-socks If you want to install a smaller stripped binary (without debug) do: make install-strip If you have any problems compiling, you can try the old method: cd src cp Makefile.gtk Makefile make make install