Developers

• Building
  • Windows
  • Unix
  • OS X
• Plugin Interface
  • Introduction
  • Sample plugin
  • What’s word and word_eol?
  • Lists and Fields
  • Plugins on Windows (Win32)
  • Controlling the GUI
  • Handling UTF-8/Unicode strings
  • Types and Constants
  • Functions

Scripting

There are multiple scripting languages supported by HexChat but currently only Python (2.7 & 3.5), Perl (5.20), and Lua are officially supported with Lua being the recommended option.

• HexChat D-Bus Interface
• HexChat Javascript Interface
• HexChat Lua Interface
• HexChat Perl Interface
• HexChat Python Interface

Building Perl modules on Windows

• Building Perl modules on Windows
  • CPAN
  • Software
  • Setup
  • Usage
  • Old depreciated method
  • Software
  • Downloading and Extracting
  • Note on Perl module dependencies
  • Building