Hello,
There are very few resources currently available that explain how to
compile newest version of readline using MSVC toolset. I have sucessfully to do
it by the build script
https://github.com/jiangjianshan/msvc-pkg/blob/main/packages/readline/build.sh
with other files , e.g.
https://github.com/jiangjianshan/msvc-pkg/blob/main/packages/readline/001-readline-compile-on-msvc.diff
in the same folder of packages/readline.
If you look into the README.md of https://github.com/jiangjianshan/msvc-pkg
. You can do it following way to build readline using MSVC toolset:
git clone https://github.com/jiangjianshan/msvc-pkg.git
cd msvc-pkg
mpt readline
A good improvement of implementation of readline can be bring back Makefile.am
and update the configure.ac to bring libtool macro inside. Also integrate
gnulib can solve the missing posix function from MSVC. After done these, the
.diff above maybe no need.
