Assitance on chat room preferences/plugins

[Daniel Atallah]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 13:24, Ian Jones <i.jones at iontrading.com> wrote:
> Ahh okay, I just noticed that the issue appears to have been reported
> before: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5507
>
> It seems like mino posted the code to ensure you get a popup:
> http://custardsource.com/scratch/chatpop.c
>
> Can you explain how I take this .c file and load it as a plugin so I can
> use this functionality?

The C source file would first need to be compiled.

Doing that requires a fair amount of work and is covered in the FAQ:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Scripting%20and%20Plugins#HowdoIcompileapluginWindows