miniIRChat

Is an open source desktop application for IRC chat

Target

• Simple
• Portable
• Fast

Features

• Portable, one executable file, take it any where.
• Works in Windows and Linux
• SSL/TLS 1.3 connection
• Mutli Server
• [TODO] Enable bounce option
• [TODO] Log History files
• [TODO] Empoji
• [TODO] Show Picture from URL
• [TODO] Syntax Highlighter for language for message started with ``` (in middle of message too)

Disadvantages

• There is no SASL
• No plugins/addon yet

Contributing

Keep it as simple as possible.

History

It moved from minilib demo folder

Build

miniIRChat is a FreePascal/Lazarus project, to compile it you need to install all packages it depends on

• Use source code from github.com in branch "release", or use last tag, branch "master" is my working upstream, it is not stable.
• FreePascal FPC 3.2 or later
• Lazarus last update from subversion repo, it is recommended, or use version 2.1
• MiniLib https://github.com/parmaja/minilib
• MiniCtrls https://github.com/parmaja/minictrls

Open each package in Lazarus and compile it in order.

Required Packages

minilib\lib\MiniCommons.lpk
minilib\xml\source\MiniXML.lpk
minilib\socket\source\MiniSockets.lpk
minilib\connection\source\MiniConnections.lpk

minictrls\lib\MiniLib.lpk
minictrls\components\native\NativeLib.lpk

Testing and Use

My prefered IRC server is ergo.

Competitions

https://hexchat.github.io/ https://konversation.kde.org/