README.osx

TalkSoup is a fully-featured IRC client written with the GNUstep framework

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Copyright (C) 2003 Andy Ruder

  TalkSoup is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Comments are welcome.
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First off, let me say that since I do not own and never have owned a Mac 
I have absolutely no way to actually maintain proper building methods on 
OSX.  Therefore, building on OSX will be limited to gnustep-make style
compilations.

Secondly, if you cannot understand the instructions herein, please download
the binaries rather than wasting my time with issues related to lack of skill
with unix-like systems and the command line environment.  The binaries are
the recommended way of dealing with TalkSoup on OS X.  You have been warned.

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Step 1: 
	Download gnustep-make from http://www.gnustep.org.  You do not need
	gnustep-base or gnustep-gui; all you need is gnustep-make.  Read the
	included documentation and proceed with its installation.

Step 2:
	Download netclasses from http://netclasses.aeruder.net

Step 2:
	Run Misc/setup_osx.sh and read the instructions.

Step 3:
	Target .app will be at TalkSoup.app with all frameworks and plugins as part
	of the bundle.

Conclusion:
	Have fun!  Hope you enjoy TalkSoup! :)

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Copyright (C) 2003 by Andy Ruder
aeruder@ksu.edu
http://talksoup.aeruder.net