On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Schulman.Andrew wrote: > I'm going to try to build and package screen for Cygwin. It's such a > useful program, I just have to try. > > screen 4.0.2 won't compile OOTB in Cygwin: > > gcc -c -I. -I. -g -O2 misc.c > misc.c: In function `xsetenv': > misc.c:619: error: too few arguments to function `setenv' > make: *** [misc.o] Error 1 > > I haven't looked into trying to fix this yet, it may be quite simple. > > There are many references to a binary of screen 4.0.2 compiled for > Cygwin, and a corresponding patch, available at > http://www.fredlwm.hpg.ig.com.br/cygwin/screen/. But that page has gone > dark, and I can't find a cached copy of it anywhere. If someone has the > patch that was provided there, I'd appreciate it if you'd pass it along. > > If anyone else has tried and failed to build or package screen for > Cygwin, or if you know anything else about the feasibility of this > little project, I'd appreciate hearing from you. > > Andrew.
I've had success with earlier versions of screen (3.9.13) -- see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00419.html> for a patch which, I believe, addresses the issue you mentioned above. Hopefully it won't be too hard to adjust it for 4.0.2. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT