To build/use the module you need:

• Irssi and Irssi development files
  • Debian packages: irssi irssi-dev
• glib2 and glib2 development files
  • Debian packages: libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev
• Tcl 8.5+ and Tcl 8.5+ development files
  • Debian packages: tcl8.5-dev tcl8.5
• GNU Make (gmake)
  • Debian packages: build-essential (well this will get Make among other things)

It's possible it will work with older Tcl versions, but I haven't tested. Nor have I tested with higher than 8.5.x actually.

These commands must be run in the src directory.

Linux:

make

FreeBSD:

gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD

Didn't work? If building fails, check the included (-I) directories listed in the Makefile actually exist. They may be at a different location on your system (such as in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib). You will need to alter them until they are all correct if they are not.

Building with debug (only really alters script/module paths right now):

make -e DEBUG=-DDEBUG

Linux:

make install

FreeBSD:

make -f Makefile.FreeBSD install

The install will place libtcl.so in ~/.irssi/modules and Tcl scripts into ~/.irssi/tcl

Alternatively you can manually copy libtcl.so where you would like it, but the module will look in ~/.irssi/tcl for scripts.

To load the module in Irssi:

/load tcl

To autoload the module at startup of Irssi:

echo "load tcl" >> ~/.irssi/startup

The scripts that are loaded automatically are listed in ~/.irssi/tcl/scripts.conf.

Alternatively, a script in ~/.irssi/tcl/ can be loaded via

/tcl load_script name_of_script.tcl

Run a command in the Tcl interpreter:

/tcl <command ...>

Reload Tcl scripts:

/tcl reload

/tcl set a [expr 5+5]
13:53 -!- Tcl: Running /tcl: 'set a [expr 5+5]'
13:53 -!- Tcl: Result: 10

/tcl set a
13:53 -!- Tcl: Running /tcl: 'set a'
13:53 -!- Tcl: Result: 10

See the "tcl" section in /set for Tcl script settings.

See docs/scripting.md.

See docs/eggdrop_scripts.md.

There are some sample scripts for this module in the repository 'irssi-tcl-scripts'.