= WeeChat
:author: Sébastien Helleu
:email: flashcode@flashtux.org
:lang: en
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client, fast and
light, designed for many operating systems.
It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Homepage: https://weechat.org/
image:https://travis-ci.org/weechat/weechat.svg?branch=master["Build Status", link="https://travis-ci.org/weechat/weechat"]
== Features
* Modular chat client with a lightweight core and optional plugins.
* Multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & other).
* Multi-protocols architecture (mainly IRC).
* Compliant with IRC RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812 and 2813.
* Small, fast and very light.
* Customizable and extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl,
Guile, Javascript).
* Fully documented and translated into several languages.
* Developed from scratch.
* Free software, released under GPLv3.
image::https://weechat.org/media/images/screenshots/weechat/medium/weechat_2013-04-27_phlux_shadow.png[align="center"]
== Install
=== Dependencies
Following packages are *required*:
* CMake
* libncurses
* libcurl
* zlib
* libgcrypt
Following packages are optional:
* for i18n: gettext
* for SSL: gnutls, ca-certificates
* for spell checking: aspell
* for scripting: python, perl, ruby, lua, tcl, guile, libv8 (javascript)
* for building doc: asciidoc, source-highlight
(for man page: xsltproc, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl)
* for building tests: C++ compiler, CppUTest
For a complete list of dependencies and versions recommended, please look at
https://weechat.org/files/doc/devel/weechat_user.en.html#dependencies[user's guide].
=== Compile
WeeChat can be built with http://cmake.org/[CMake] (recommended) or autotools.
[NOTE]
Only CMake is officially supported to build WeeChat. You should use autotools
only if you are not able to use CMake. +
Build with autotools requires more dependencies and is slower than with CMake.
----
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/directory
$ make
$ make install (as root for installation in system directories)
----
For more information or installation with autotools, please look at
https://weechat.org/files/doc/devel/weechat_user.en.html#compile_with_autotools[user's guide].
== Copyright
Copyright (C) 2003-2015 Sébastien Helleu <flashcode@flashtux.org>
This file is part of WeeChat, the extensible chat client.
WeeChat is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
WeeChat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with WeeChat. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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