[OTR-dev] Building an OTR plugin for Trillian 3.1

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Wed Feb 15 14:25:56 EST 2006


On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Twan Fox wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> New to this list but using Trillian for a while, I have been getting a
> little antsy about not being able to encrypt messages across multiple IM
> clients. Having originally intended to use another encryption protocol to do
> this (already supported on Gaim), I find myself redirected to use OTR for
> various reasons. At any rate, my whole goal is to craft up a plugin which
> impliments OTR encryption for Trillian (latest version being 3.1). I come
> across lacking a few things, though.
> 
> Due to the basics of plugin development for Trillian having been designed in
> Visual Studio (it seems), that is likely the tool under which I am going to
> develop the plugin. However, obtaining or building a VS-usable library for
> libotr seems to be quite an excersize (for me, especially). I understand
> that, at least in the case of Libgcrypt, .dll files have been built, but I
> have yet to come across a dynamic (or static) library of libotr available
> for Windows development. To me, ideally, I would like to build libotr as a
> statically linked library within the plugin, to make it simple on
> placing the final plugin within Trillian, but I haven't a notion where to
> begin in porting the build environment over.
> 
> Any assistance is gladly appreciated.

Francesco "s0rr0w" Picasso reported he'd done this:

http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2005-October/000428.html

   - Ian



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