Accessing GIM CVS is easy, simply follow the following steps using your unix console:

$ export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.atari-source.org:/var/cvs"
$ cvs login
- When prompted, simply press return
$ cvs -z3 co gim

Those steps will check out the latest version of GIM almost ready for compiling on your system. In order to finalize the process, you'll need to create the file acct.blt which is your buddylist (see the readme), and you'll also need to copy over the "faim" directory from one of the source code tarballs of the current release version. You should be good to go then. Just type "make" to compile a debugging edition or "make opt" to compile an optimized edition.

In order to compile current versions of GIM and version 0.4 or above, you will need the following libraries:
In order to compile GIM version 0.3 or older, you will need the following libraries installed in their proper default locations (/usr usually):