Pu7o's Win64 XChat build

The following is an archive of Pu7o's announcement post regarding a build of XChat for Windows 64 bit systems. The post appears to have been removed in an over zealous cleanup of the thread which included an unintentional "hijack" of an announce thread with that of a second announcement for a fork project.

X-Chat: 64-bit windows build

Pu7o -- Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:14 pm

For anyone who might be interested, I recently compiled X-Chat 2.8.6 (or should I call it "YChat"?) as a win64 binary for my own personal use, and I might as well share it with anyone who's interested. No, xchat doesn't gain any major speed boost from being executed in 64-bit mode. I only did this for entertainment, mostly. This doesn't have IPv6, MMX, SSL, or any of the other "optional" compilation features, because I don't use them anyway, nor does it include any scripting plugins. It should also go without saying that this is completely unofficial and unsupported, and I don't guarantee that it'll work for you; I can only guarantee that it works for me.

Binary (includes GTK+)
Source Diff

EDIT: Plugins here (Perl, Python, TCL, DNS). For Perl scripting you need ActivePerl x64, for Python you need Python x64, for TCL you need TCL x64.

Pu7o -- PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:55 am

No idea about fe-text. The diff is targeted at MSVC, but it builds with MinGW fine, too (I was building with mingw originally before I installed the Win2003 Platform SDK which includes the command line VC2005 compiler for x64).

Please note that since this time, there have been more recent releases of ActivePerl 5.10 (currently 5.10.1.1006), Python 2.6 (currently 2.6.3) and TCL (currently 8.5.7, although specific build used in release unknown) which should be used instead.