is it possible to run mirc on a raspberry pi? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yunisaikuru · 2015-12-02 06:58 i've been searching around for an answer on this, and haven't gotten anything clear. i ordered a pi 2 yesterday so i'm just waiting for it to come in. however, i had intended to run my silly mirc bot out of it so i could just keep that on 24/7. unfortunately, did not realize mirc was windows only, and that pi is primarily linux. is there anything i can do to get around this, or am i going to have to now choose between investing in an actual programming language, or setting up a desktop in the corner? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2015-12-02 07:02 If you can write a bot in mIRC, it shouldn't be too hard to write one in Python. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jameson21 · 2015-12-02 07:03 ~~You could install Windows 10 IoT on the Pi. Have not looked into what the actual installation process of mIRC would be for an IoT deployment.~~ ~~Or you could install a flavor of Linux and run mIRC using Wine.~~ Edit: actually scrap that..forgot mIRC is only x86 based ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yunisaikuru · 2015-12-02 07:16 i actually had started learning python just to write a bot, and had gotten it to connect and do some other basic stuff. it was.. a lot more involved. it took me a while to even get it on a server. it didn't help that a lot of the ~beginner guides~ for writing irc bots in python were from a linux perspective, which i have zero experience. i didn't think it'd be an issue, but it started becoming impossible to follow along. i guess it all boils down to me being lazy and not being a terribly quick learner, which is why i'm using mirc in the first place. it's easy and works! i plan to learn python in the future, but i just don't know how far off that is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- damiankw · 2015-12-02 07:33 Let me know if you want help with your irc bot, I've been writing one for the last two weeks or so (just started learning python) and could give you some tips. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicd · 2015-12-02 09:55 You can run mIRC on Wine, the 7.x versions even have some patches to deal with Wine problems I seem to recall (I used to run it like that for a while). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lyspr · 2015-12-02 12:25 Use weechat, it can be scripted with lua. You can pick up kid easily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- boo_ood · 2015-12-03 00:12 Wine only works on x86 (with a few exceptions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicd · 2015-12-03 06:17 Ohhhh yeah, I forgot Raspi is an ARM system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yunisaikuru · 2015-12-03 19:41 appreciated, but it's been about half a year since i worked on it, and i've pretty much forgotten everything i had learned about python. i'm more or less starting all over again i would take any links to resources/guides you're using though! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- atblakely · 2015-12-06 09:26 Honestly I'd go with trying to learn a language like Python or perl. I have a bot that's in perl that is easy to write modules for. http://github.com/ablakely/shadow ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TingPing · 2015-12-06 17:50 Alternatively there are hundreds (thousands?) of existing bots out there like [Limnoria](https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria) that can be configured with little/no programming knowledge.