I'm stuck at IRC connections

[roelf01]

Hello,

I need some help using a IRC connection.

I'm using DEV-CPP.
I tried using cpIRC and other libs,
but the first always ends with "Unable to open streams" and the others won't even compile!

I'm working on a console app to check for updates on my IRC server.
It's simple, i want it to display the last post.

But i can't get it to work!

Please help!

Greetings,

[Athar]

I'm working on a console app to check for updates on my IRC server.
It's simple, i want it to display the last post.

What updates? What posts?

But i can't get it to work!

What is "it"? And in what way does "it" not work?

[roelf01]

"It" is the app i'm working on,
"It" should display the last post on a IRC channel and "it" should be compilable on dev-cpp.
"It" however always fails with a compilation error or an

Unable to open streams!

error.

Help needed!

[Athar]

You'll need to get a bit more specific.
Generally speaking, you need to establish a connection to the IRC server, authenticate, join the channel, respond to pings and wait for messages to the channel.