Licq
ICQ Clone
Alex Galkin, Platon Fomitchev

Welcome to the page of another ICQ client (I think it is forth). It is called Licq.

Current version Licq 0.75, plug-in 0.70 (15.01.2000)

About this application:

The author of this application is Graham Roff. At first it was written for Linux. Afterwards it was transferred to FreeBSD and other UNIX-like platforms. And only recently it was ported by me to OS/2 ;). If you want to know history of this port it is quite simple - I was searching for good ICQ client for Solaris and stumbled across Licq. It was rather hard to compile and I decided as an experiment to try to make it work in /2. And I was successful! After a week of digging in the sources of app, replacing some funcs and searching for needed libs (Stauff had helped me much with this) LICQ launched normally. I was impressed (before it I used many other OS/2 native ICQ clients) and I decided to give to people. Also I'd like to mention that still no critical bugs were found in stable version of LICQ/2.

So, what's this all fuss about (see screen shot 33k).

Licq is a client for working with ICQ server using the same named protocol, created by Mirabilis company (now it's owned by America Online). Almost all features of original WIN32 application are supported and some are done even better. You can:

chat with each other (no multy-part chat still);
send messages to each other;
send and receive files;
send and receive URL's.

Service functions:

multy-column fully customized contact list;
authorization;
search;
sound support;
almost all code-pages are supported (tables of translations are equivalent to ircii);
skin-support;
registration of new users;
small pager window;
full localization of interface;

As it is a UNIX app with X interface you will need XServer. I can't but mention that LICQ works great with PMX, and if you will take corresponding Xmodmap, you even can use Cyrillic symbols without any troubles (see article about Cyrillic support in XFree86 on this server).

This app was written using Qt, that's why you will need corresponding qt lib see links.

That's all! Nothing to worry! I can admit that OS/2 version works a lot better than Solaris one (latest versions are not working on my Solaris at all :( ).

Some common for ALL systems problems and still not working features in LICQ app:

No multy-part chart - 3 or more people (going to be implemented pretty soon)
Some bad things may happen when you add people with Cyrillic nicks to your contact-list
"Exit" command may cause troubles, close licq as a process.

You can download latest version in the form of binary files, but if you want to get acquainted with the code or correct smth you can also download sources. Do not forget that LICQ is distributed according to GNU license. Before downloading LICQ please do not forget to read next section!!!

And finally...
I want to express our deepest gratitude to Mr. Brian Smith [Nuke] from EverBlue (NetLabs) project, he ported some pthreads funcs in just one day. Without them you will never see LICQ up and running! THANKS Brian!
Also huge thanks to Stauff__, who made some OS/2 corrections and found many bugs and also translated this document.

So, that's all. Write bug-reports - more bug-reports- more bug-fixes. :)))

Pay attention!

In order to run LICQ (version >=0.70) you will need QT lib version 2.00 or higher. More you will need (and not only for LICQ) patched EMX.dll with unofficial fix from Brian Smith.

If you use PMX and do not have XFree86/2, you will need X11 archive. Unpack it somewhere and edit the environment variable X11ROOT in Licq_start.cmd (or in config.sys), and start Licq with attached Licq_start.cmd (you can also transfer env. variables defined in it to config.sys).

As an XServer you may use XFree86/2, PMX, Exceed/2(this do not have Cyrillic support still). You can find them on our server www.os2.spb.ru. Also there you will find some info about each XServer (in Russian mostly).

You may also find some additional info in additions. If you still have troubles e-mail me - you can find my coordinates at the end of this page.

All needed libs you will find in links part of this page.

And the most important: before starting LICQ please run (or even install) X-Server!

Links

Description	Req. version	Filename	Size	Date
Licq 0.61.11 binary (stable)	---	licq-0.61.11-os2-bin.zip	314k	15.06.1999
Licq 0.71 binary	---	licq-0.71-os2-bin.zip	840k	04.01.2000
Licq 0.71 source	---	licq-0.71-os2-src.zip	302k	04.01.2000
Licq 0.75 binary	---	licq-0.75-os2-bin.zip	776k	15.01.2000
Licq 0.75 source	---	licq-0.75-os2-src.zip	474k	15.01.2000
Qt lib 1.44	for 0.66	qt-lib.zip	516k	03.11.1999
Qt lib 2.02 (patch-2)	for 0.7*	qt-202-lib.zip	996k	04.01.2000
X11 - if you do not have XFree86	-	x11-for-pmx.zip	416k	11.11.1999
addon (zlib pnglib, emx-fix)	да	lib-support.zip	137k	11.11.1999
Cyrillic support for PMX	нет	rus-for-pmx.zip	2k	03.11.1999

History

April-May 1999

Licq 0.66.1

First version - still some bugs though stable.

June 1999

Licq 0.66.11

Nothing new - just history file fix and PMX double-click fix.

September-October 1999

Licq 0.70 + plugin 0.66.1

At last something new. Many new features and bugs ;)

Registration added

Pager window

Skin browser;

Many other small things

You can see it all on this picture.

This is an XFree86/2 shot using E/2 as Window Manager.

October 1999

Licq 0.70.1a + plugin 0.66.2

First public licq from 0.70 series;

Many small bug fixes, some with implementations.

November 1999

Licq 0.70.1aa + plugin 0.66.2

Resolving fix - unable to resolve a hostname while starting first time,

crash when going online etc...

December 1999 - January 2000

Licq 0.71 + plugin 0.67

We hit the millenium ;)

New GUI things, wait for 0.75 to see some REALLY cool candys.

Colored history

List of ignored users

Big improvements in thread structure of app. Although pthreads still need tweaking

Full locale support (through .qm files)

Look at it here (33к).

Licq 0.75 + plugin 0.70 15 January 2000

He-he we going to port fast now version like rabbits

Very much improved UI

More stable

Better support for bad channels

Plugin management

Many new cool and not features

Notes

15.06.1999: If Licq crashes while adding another person to contact-list, you will; need to add SET EMXOPT=-h1024 (or 2048) to your config.sys,; to increase maximum number of file handles. This is very important if you; use Squid/2.
10.11.1999: If you have problems while loading plug-in you probably need this two; libs: zlib & pnglib .You can get them downloading addon (zlib, pnglib,emx-fix).
04.01.2000: The most important thing in this version is locale support.; If you want to have localized version of licq travel to www.licq.org; and in "Downloads" look for your language.After that place .qm file in; /share/qt-gui/locale and set LANG variable according to example in licq.cmd; If you will ever want to change strings please get .po file for examplle; RU_RU_KOI8-R.PO and use MSG2QM util on it. You can get all this files in /share

Alex A. Galkin
FIDO: 2:5030/537.25
IRC nick: |Kovu|
UIN 33631896 - |Kovu|

Platon B. Fomitchev
IRC nick: Stauff__
UIN 53121244 - Stauff