Installation Notes:

Quick note, xIrc-static can now be found in the xIrc-1.14 directory. 
I'm not sure if it will work and I don't want to reconfigure my computer
to find out. Please let me know What Y'All find out!

To start, you need the qt library already installed and ready to use. 
After this is done, edit the Makefiles in both xIrc and libX++ to reflect
where it resides. Also in the makefile for xIrc you will find an entry for
where the libX++ library and it's headers can be found. Adjust it
accordingly. These are the only changes that should be needed. Though, if
you have some strange locations as to where your standard include files
and libraries reside, you may need to modify the Compiler and Loader flag
lines also. On my system, I have a links up in /usr/local/include and 
/usr/local/lib to the directory where libX++ resides. One day when it 
stabilizes, these will be it's real home :)).

After  you  have  modified  the  makefiles  to fit your system, change
directory to the libX++ source directory and type 'make depend; make'.
This  will  build  the  static  library.  When  it is complete, change
directory  to  xIrc  and  type  'make depend; make' again. This should
build the irc application.

I have found that after building xIrc, that stripping it of it's symbol 
info greatly reduces it's size and I can't help but expect that to reduce 
its load time and running overhead. From it's directory, type in 

	'strip xIrc'

to do this deed for you. Since upgrading to qt-0.94 and gcc-2.7.2, the
reduction has does not seem to be as substantial

Copy the xIrc.defaults to the directory where you plan to use it from, 
say your home directory, and modify it to suit your needs.


 Good luck and happy Ircing.
