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

[Twan Fox]

Ok, well, I don't know what I did differently yesterday to today, but it
seems like I just figured out how to make a libotr 'head' build of a
VS.NETcompatable static library.

On 2/15/06, Twan Fox <twanfox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had attempted to use that visual studio environment, but when I tried,
> it was a little less than intuitive to set up, and the build attempt I made
> was all horktified (ie: it be broke). I've been using Visual Studio .NET
> 2003 and the environments given were at best Visual Studio 6. If there is
> more documentation on how to use that environment, I'm more than willing to
> use an already set up project to kick this thing off. I suppose I can tinker
> with it more. Also just contemplating building the environment from scratch
> in VS.NET <http://vs.net/> 2k3 for sanity sake, if I can figure out what
> must be done for it.
>
> On 2/15/06, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> >
> > 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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