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-- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.9 2012/09/22 17:46:04 tom Exp $
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-- Author: Juergen Pfeifer
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This is work in progress, but it's in an state where one can see it
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works at least on the Windows Console.
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You should install the MSYS package, so that you've a shell environment that
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allows you to run the scripts, especially configure etc. You can get that
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from http://www.mingw.org
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To build ncurses for native Windows, you need the MinGW toolchain. The
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original MinGW toolchain from the above site is only for 32-Bit Windows. As
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Windows Server - and also regular workstations - are moving to 64-Bit, it
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seems to be reasonable to have a toolchain that supports both architectures.
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I recommend to use the TDM gcc toolchain which you can find at
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http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download. Go to the download section and select
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the bundle installer for tdm64 (MinGW-w64). This installs a multilib version
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of the gcc toolchain that can compile for native 32- and 64-Bit Windows
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versions. It also comes with a working pthread implementation.
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The latest config and build scripts we use for MinGW have only been tested
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for the gcc-4.6.1 compiler toolchain (or better).
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Using MinGW is a pragmatic decision, it's the easiest way to port this
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heavily UNIX based sourcebase to native Windows. The goal is of course
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to provide the includes, libraries and DLLs to be used with the more
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common traditional development environments on Windows, mainly with
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Microsoft Visual Studio.
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The TERM environment variable must be set specially to active the Windows
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console-driver. The driver checks if TERM is set to "#win32con" (explicit
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use) or if TERM is unset or empty (implicit).
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Please also make sure that MSYS links to the correct directory containing
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your MinGW toolchain. For TDM this is usually C:\MinGW64. In your Windows
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CMD.EXE command shell go to the MSYS root directory (most probably
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C:\MSYS or C:\MSYS\1.0) and verify, that there is a junction point mingw
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that points to the MinGW toolchain directory. If not, delete the mingw
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directory and use the mklink command (or the linkd.exe utility on older
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Windows) to create the junction point.
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This code requires WindowsNT 5.1 or better, which means on the client
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Windows XP or better, on the server Windows Server 2003 or better.
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I recommend using libtool to build ncurses on MinGW, because libtool
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knows exactly how to build dll's on Windows for use with MinGW.
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To build a modern but still small footprint ncurses that provides
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hooks for interop, I recommend using these options:
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--with-libtool
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--disable-home-terminfo
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--enable-database
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--disable-termcap
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--enable-sp-funcs
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--enable-term-driver
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--enable-interop
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This is the configuration commandline as I'm using it at the moment (assuming
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environment variable MINGW_ROOT to hold the root directory name of your MinGW
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build):
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./configure \
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--prefix=$MINGW_ROOT \
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--with-cxx \
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--without-ada \
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--enable-warnings \
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--enable-assertions \
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--disable-home-terminfo \
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--enable-database \
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--enable-sp-funcs \
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--enable-term-driver \
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--enable-interop \
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--disable-termcap \
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--with-progs \
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--with-libtool \
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--enable-pc-files \
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--mandir=$MINGW_ROOT/share/man
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Please note that it is also necessary to set this environment variable:
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export PATH_SEPARATOR=";"
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in order to parse the terminfo paths correctly. Terminfo paths should
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always be separated by a seeeemicolon,even when running under MSYS.
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To support regular expressions properly, ncurses under MinGW should be
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linked against the gnurx regex library, which must be built separately
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under MinGW. See
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ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/libgnurx-src-2.5.zip
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All the options above are - like the whole Windows support -
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experimental.
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A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
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- Wide Character support (display is workable, but input untested)
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The Win32Con driver should actually only use Unicode in the
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future.
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- Thread support (locking). If using TDM toolchain this is done by
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configuring pthreads.
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- A GUI console driver
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- Support for Terminals attached via a serial port (via terminfo)
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- Support for networked Terminal connections (via terminfo)
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- Workarounds for MinGW's filesystem access are necessary to make infocmp
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work (though tic works).
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To support terminfo, we would need to have an ioctl() simulation for the
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serial and networked terminals.
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