Coding - Compiling ircu

How to compile the code?

- Download the source as tarball or through cvs.

- If you have downloaded the tarball, untar it using the following command:

tar xvfz ircu2.10.08.05.tar.gz

- Perform the following commands:

cd ircu2.10
./configure --enable-pedantic
(see ./configure --help for other options you might want to use)
make && make install
(use gmake if make doesn't work or if you are on a BSD style system)

If you have not received any errors, then everything went fine and you should be ready to configure the ircd.

I am getting complaints about -lssl not found !

Yes, we know about this issue on some systems, that means you do not have the openssl headers installed. Here is a procedure on how to fix this:

cd ircu2.10 (if you are not already in there)
wget http://www.scarynet.org/coder-com/Makefile.patch
(or use fetch if wget is not available)
patch -p0 -i Makefile.patch
make install
(use gmake if make doesn't work or if you are on a BSD style system)