Libircclient

Jul 20, 2023

IRC library to create IRC clients

libircclient is a small but powerful library, which implements client-server IRC protocol. It is designed to be small, fast, portable and compatible to RFC standards, and most IRC clients. libircclient features include

* Full multi-threading support.
* Single threads handles all the IRC processing.
* Support for single-threaded applications, and socket-based applications,
	which use select
* Synchronous and asynchronous interfaces.
* CTCP support with optional build-in reply code.
* Flexible DCC support, including both DCC chat, and DCC file transfer.
* Can both initiate and react to initiated DCC.
* Can accept or decline DCC sessions asynchronously.
* Plain C interface and implementation
	possible to use from C++ code, obviously
* Compatible with RFC 1459 and most IRC clients.
* Free, licensed under LGPL license.
* Good documentation and examples available.


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