Need some help with porting.

[Munchkin]

I'm no programmer, haven't been for quite some time at least.

Since I'm trying to find some services to run on my irc server I've been looking around and can't find anything really. The only chanserv port I found just doesn't work.

So, I found this one that seems to be interesting:

http://magick.sourceforge.net/

However, I really don't know what I need to be able to port this. Probably to big an effort for someone who hasn't ported anything before. I don't even know if it's possible to port.

All kinds of help are appreciated, definately trying to venture into the unknown here!

[Neo]

I should warn you!

It's very hard to port something. Usually much easier to write from scratch. Especially software written for Linux has been proven very hard to port. UNIX programmers have a tendence to write code that is not very portable.

You have to look into the code to make an estimate what need to be changed and the time to do it.

If the code is written in C or C++ you have to consider that the Amiga compilers don't cope very well with GCC code.  (The compiler used under Linux) And GCC for Amiga is a plain hell to get working!

Good luck!