if i was you i would ditch c and go with perl here a basic perl bot i made.


#bob.pl
#irc bot
#by NetComm

$nick1 ="bob";
my $server ="irc.server.net";
my $port ="6667";
$channel ="#blah";

while($line=<$server>)
{

print $line;

$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $server,
PeerPort => $port,
Proto => "tcp",
Type => SOCK_STREAM)
or die "Can't connect to Server Check to see if your connected to the internet.\n";

$line = <$server>;
print $line;
print $server "NICK $nick\r\n";
print $server "USER $nick irc.blah.us irc.bleh.net :Bob\r\n";
print $server "PONG :$server\r\n";
print $server "JOIN $channel\r\n";

if($line=~/^PING/)
{
print $server "PONG :$server\r\n";
print "PONG!\n";
}

if($line=~/!commandhere/)
{
print $server "PRIVMSG $channel :blahblahblah\r\n";
}



as you can see its pritty simple...
anyway hope i helped,


peace
NetComm

///////.c
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <shellapi.h>
#include <wininet.h>
#include "sock.h"
int main()
{
WSADATA WSData;
WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1, 1), &WSData);
create_sock("eu.undernet.org",6667);
return 0;
}


//////////.h

SOCKET create_sock(char *host, int port)
{
DWORD err;
LPHOSTENT lpHostEntry = NULL;
SOCKADDR_IN SockAddr;
SOCKET sock;
IN_ADDR iaddr;
if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == INVALID_SOCKET) return -1;
memset(&SockAddr, 0, sizeof(SockAddr));
SockAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
SockAddr.sin_port = htons(port);
iaddr.s_addr = inet_addr(host);
if (iaddr.s_addr == INADDR_NONE) lpHostEntry = gethostbyname(host); //hostname
if (lpHostEntry == NULL && iaddr.s_addr == INADDR_NONE) return -2;
if (lpHostEntry != NULL) SockAddr.sin_addr = *((LPIN_ADDR)*lpHostEntry->h_addr_list); //hostname
else SockAddr.sin_addr = iaddr; //ip address
if (connect(sock, (SOCKADDR *) &SockAddr, sizeof(SockAddr)) == SOCKET_ERROR) return -1;
return sock;
}

hey, am looking to build a irc bot (Like spybot + sdbot etc) in C and i was wondering if any one had seen a bare bones one about somewhere?

by bare bones i mean all it has to do is connect to irc and idle in a chan...

i googled it and i found some thing called "irc suckerbot" but i couldnt file the files, just old links pointing to freshmeat.com

so has any one got this or know of any thing better to get me started???

well iguess if u`re good enough u could start with iroffer ( iroffer.com ) i think its written in C and its a working bot....

yes this is the kind of thing am looking for! not barebones tho lol, cheers ill make a start

You could not be lazy and look for the RFC
Try winsoc help sites, they usually have IRC Client tutorials