Hi. I would need a good easy to use, but still powerful API for IRC.(C or C++)... Can anyone suggest one? thx GDG

I searched for one a while ago but couldnt find anything. But it isnt that hard, really. If you know basic Winsocks or any socket programming you can do it. There are serveral descriptions of the IRC protocol avaible so you know what to send and recieve. A very basic IRC program is less than 80 lines of code.

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Microsoft''s got a CHAT SDK but they integrated it with the platform SDK download which is huge. If you''ve got cable/t1/ISDN or DSL download it from msdn.microsoft.com

The IRC protocol is fairly simple. I wrote a number of Delphi components that encapsulate IRC. The only reference I had was the published RFC that describes the protocol. Here is a link to the RFC...
http://ars.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/Orig/rfc1459.txt

thanks for all your answers

i think i will be able to do it with this irc protocol reference and winsock...

i cant use this microsoft chat api, because it should be easy to port to linux later.. but thx for the good suggestion

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