Re: native win32 ncurses

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Gerhard [iso-8859-15] Häring wrote:

> Has really nobody managed to build one using msys/mingw32 (*)? To not
> make an utter fool of myself, I just tested that it really doesn't work
> OOTB with ncurses 5.2.

I don't know that anyone has tried with mingw32 (cygwin's been done for
a few years).  I haven't heard of msys before.

> Is there anything in ncurses that makes this very difficult, if not
> impossible?

To be useful with mingw32, one would need a console-window driver.  I have
something of that nature in vile - ntconio.c - which is a starting point -
but haven't myself a need to work on that for ncurses.  (Mostly the things
that I work on myself are related to things that I need - I have a long
list of things that other people suggest - ymmv).

> Having a win32 version would be very cool, as it would allow a ton of
> other unixoid programs to run on *native* win32.
>
> Gerhard
>
> (*) Yes, I know about PDcurses
>

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