Re: Suggestion to porting ncurses library to mingw.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:29:52AM -0700, daniel silva ferreira bruno wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think that the module sys_ioctl of the gnulib is useful for ncurses library 
> because the <sys/ioctl.h> file can to be required by ncurses.
> And by gnulib manual, the <sys/ioctl.h> header file is missing on mingw and 
> MSVC9 platforms (page 411, chapter 10 !). It can to be obtained at:

sys/ioctl.h can hold many things; gnulib's version holds few.

In particular, ncurses uses to obtain some definitions for handling SIGWINCH.
gnulib doesn't help at all in that case - in any configuration.

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