Open Source C IRC Clients for Windows

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

Miranda IM is an open source, multi-protocol instant messaging client designed to be very light on system resources, extremely fast and customizable. A powerful plugin-based architecture make Miranda IM one of the most flexible clients on the planet.

Anope Services are built off of the original Epona code written by Lara which is built off of IRC Services. These services have advanced the original Epona code and include new features such as Modules, Mysql, and Defcon Mode.

Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.

Eggdrop RacBot is an enhanced derivative of the popular Eggdrop IRC Bot. It strives to be user friendly and easy to manage, yet be fully featured too.

RageIRCd has been specifically developed with stability and security in mind. It has a wide range of useful features, while operating at maximum performance. RageIRCd v2.0 now supports Microsoft Windows.

DAVIS is an easy and useful language for IRC bots. This project contains our own bots, some bots for demonstration, a parser that creates Java, C, Perl and IRC-Script code out of a DAVIS file, and an interpreter for DAVIS files.

Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.

Sanvirc is a script for KVirc that includes funtions like: nick identification, autojoin, defense, atack, bots management, away system, etc. At the moment works whis IRC-Hispano bots but is very easy to adapt to other servers.

The Invisible IRC Project (IIP) is an anonymous & secure IRC network.

X-Chat is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) program for Linux and Windows.

A pidgin plugin that allows user to assign global hotkeys (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+g) for togglling buddy list and reading queued message. When "Toggle List" hotkey is enabled, it makes the buddy list hidden from your taskbar and task switcher (similar to ICQ).

A graphical notification plugin for the instant message client gaim. Now hosted at http://plugins.guifications.org/trac

The OpenVerse is a visual chat program written in Tcl/Tk. The program connects to any OpenVerse server (server and client code included).

Gamers.IRC is a full MSL Script for mIRC, the most popular Windows IRC client. Gamers.IRC is for Windows 95 and higher. Source code: Download and run the installer. Open the .grc and .ini files with notepad.

PlanetaMessenger.org is a Instant Messenger with support to all well known instant messenger networks including ICQ,MSN,AIM,Yahoo! and Jabber through a powerfull plugin engine. PlanetaMessenger.org support multiples look and feels, plugins and profiles.

This is a modification of the Markovsky IRC Bot. Extra code has been added so that the bot has the capability to not only speak in the distinctive dialects of Andrew Hussie's Homestuck Trolls, but can also switch between them at runtime.

A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

Denora is a set of Stats Services for IRC networks that allows IRC network admins to get a complete and comprehensive overview of their IRC network. Denora exports this information to MySQL, HTML XML and flatfile databases.

This is a collection of software components, including an ircd, libflog and librascal. Please look at the home page for package specific details.

This plugin allows winamp to talk to mIRC and Klient. You can have your irc client do things when the song changes in winamp. You can also control winamp from within your irc client.

Valuhack is a collaborative effort of a variety of newsgroups to port a simple program to as many languages as possible, while maintaining the true spirit of hacking.

IMGIANT is a GTK based instant messenger application. It will support 8 different protocols, (aim, yahoo, icq, msn, napster, jabber, gadu, groupwise) and contain all features that an Instant messenger should contain, including more it shouldnt!

An IRC server written in C from scratch. Well, it's not _yet_ a fully featured IRC server. The goal is to make it multi-platformed, highly configurable at compile and run times, to allow it to run on slow machines, using the least amount of resources.