The answer to this is that the last post doesn't link you to the Required dependencies.
[Pidgin 2.7.1]Liboicl wrote:I compiliied it in Puppy 4.3.1. I disabled tk, dbus, & avahi.Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.
Supported chat networks:
* AIM
* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* Groupwise
* ICQ
* IRC
* MSN
* MXit
* MySpaceIM
* SILC
* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Yahoo!
* Zephyr
If it crashes try leaving the first shown window open. This may just be a secluded problem, but it happened to me even on 2.6.6, compiled by Wolf Pup.