Get install pidgin

Installing all of the build dependencies can be tedious, so you may want to check out Pidgin Windev which will automate it.

Extract all of the above into the desired location e. Pidgin depends on GTK 2. Visit the GTK website for official binary and source releases. Download gettext-tools Download and extract libxml A good option is Strawberry Perl. Download the perl This is a subset of the full bit strawberry perl zip containing just the headers, import lib, and source for perl. Note If using MSYS and you installed the mingw-developer-toolkit , keep in mind that it installs msys-perl-bin Perl 5.

Download and extract gtkspell Download and extract nss Download and extract silc-toolkit Download and extract meanwhile A second major point involves public resources - an hg pull is not a cheap operation. This is, of course, because SourceForge hosts thousands of useful and active projects which use[d] CVS as a primary method of source code collaboration.

Unfortunately, when too many users are poking around in that CVS just for the sake of poking around, it prevents other users who are trying to do work to improve those very same projects from accomplishing their tasks. Naturally, this could easily become true of our Mercurial offering as well. It is better for the community if an enterprising individual wishing to fix a particular bug [s]he has seen can get to the code and create a patch, even if this means that some users have to wait a few weeks for the next release to see what new features it might hold.

The third point is not a problem which has yet come up, but it is in the back of the mind of the developers who bring you Pidgin. As a third-party IM client, Pidgin is not a priority and indeed may be an irritant for the IM service providers. We do our best to keep Pidgin playing nice and being friendly on the IM networks it uses; however, at times there are bugs in the protocol support.

If a few dozen people are using this buggy client, the IM providers are not likely to go out of their way to do anything about it. However, if hundreds of people are pointing an ill-behaved client at an IM server, the server administrators may be forced to take action. This is particularly likely if the buggy behavior is damaging in some way. Pidgin releases represent code which the Pidgin developers feel is relatively well-behaved and stable. This includes not only the interface seen by Pidgin users, but the traffic seen by IM service providers.

Pidgin Mercurial bears no such guarantees. In short, there are a lot of good reasons to not use Pidgin Mercurial if one does not wish to develop Pidgin, Pidgin plugins, or a codebase which interacts with Pidgin in some intimate way. There are, however, only a few reasons to use Pidgin Mercurial outside of the above. Please weigh these things carefully and decide whether you wish to use Pidgin Mercurial for a good reason which furthers the community, or for selfish reasons which are not entirely important.

You will need to install the libxss-dev package. Check with your distributions package manager for the exact package name. Without this package, it only allows you to report idleness based on when you last sent a message.

If you would like to have GTK included in the installer, we have an offline installer that bundles everything except spell-checking dictionaries. We do not provide pre-built packages for Linux and Unix distributions.

For a native macOS experience we recommend Adium , which uses libpurple the core of Pidgin for much of its protocol support. By visiting the previous version of the Pidgin website , we get this definition:. Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications.

One of the most important features of Pidgin is the ability to be compatible with many community plugins.