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Download and install Cygwin,
with the default base packages and the following additional packages:
-autoconf
-automake
-binutils
-gcc
-make
-patch
For compression module
-zlib
Make sure the default Tcl version include with Cygwin isn't installed.
Open the Cygwin Bash Shell
Download and install Tcl
8.5.11 (1.55MB), just extract file to root directory
cd /
tar -zxf tcl-8.5.11.tar.gz
Download eggdrop 1.6.21 source code from Eggheads
Download eggdrop 1.6.21 patch (18/06/2012)
Extract eggdrop source code
tar -zxf eggdrop1.6.21.tar.gz
Apply patch in the eggdrop source code directory
patch -p0 < eggdrop1.6.21.patch
Configure the eggdrop source code
./configure --enable-strip (For networks which only allow nicknames 9 characters in length,
i.e. IRCNet, EFNet)
Or
./configure --enable-strip --with-handlen=32 (For networks which allow
nicknames long than 9 characters in length, i.e. DALnet, QuakeNet)
Configure the eggdrop modules
make config
Or configure the modules manually to choose exactly which modules you want to
compile (By default all except woobie module are enabled)
make iconfig
Make the modules and the eggdrop itself
make eggdrop
Install the eggdrop
make install DEST=C:/eggdrop/
Remove symbolic links
cd c:/eggdrop/
rm modules
rm eggdrop.exe
mv eggdrop.exe-1.6.21 eggdrop.exe
mv modules-1.6.21 modules
Copy Cygwin and TCL dll files to eggdrop directory
cp /bin/cygwin1.dll C:/eggdrop
cp /usr/local/bin/libtcl8.5.dll C:/eggdrop
Copy the TCL libraries
(mkdir C:/eggdrop/lib )
cp -r /usr/local/lib/tcl C:/eggdrop/lib
cp -r /usr/local/lib/tcl8.5 C:/eggdrop/lib
Only needed for the compression module
cp /bin/cygz.dll C:/eggdrop