Hi, I created a readline-5.2 WIN32 port, based on the readline-5.0 port http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm.
I actually applied the patch for readline-5.0 on readline-5.2 sources and made some manual fixing where the patch didn't succeed. I also added the rl_free() function. I sent a mail with the patch to the readline maintainer Chet Ramey: --------- Rationale: It is always recommended to free the memory by the same module that allocated it. This fact becomes more evident when the module is dynamically linked: the main program and the shared library may use different memory allocation libraries, which might be problematic if the memory is allocated by the shared library and deallocated by the main program. I came across this problem when dynamically linking readline.dll, generated by mingw gcc compiler, from the main program compiled with Visual Studio .NET: the memory allocation is done by msvcrt.dll called from readline.dll, while the deallocation is done by msvcr80.dll (or the statically linked equivalent) called from the main program, which seems to be incompatible. I attached the patch which adds the rl_free() function to readline library and changes free() to rl_free() in examples directory. The documentation in doc directory should be updated accordingly. --------- The packages are available at: http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/gpsimWin32/packages/readline-5.2-20061112-src.zip http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/gpsimWin32/packages/readline-5.2-20061112-lib.zip http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/gpsimWin32/packages/readline-5.2-20061112-bin.zip The package is currently used by the gpsimWin32 project http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/gpsimWin32/gpsimWin32.html and SDCDB debugger , part of the SDCC project http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/. In the lib packages there are libraries for mingw gcc and MSVC 8.0. The mingw libs are built using the cygwin "gcc -mno-cygwin". Just remove -mno-cygwin if you are using mingw gcc. I think it would be nice to have the readline-5.2 package as a part of GnuWin32 suite. If you think that something should be changed /added in the packages, please let me know. Borut Razem ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
