On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote: > This is a bit off-topic and is really a question for Thomas. > > I have a program that I'd like to port to MingW. Only problem is > that it makes heavy use of ncurses and it's forms, fields and menus. > I've built PD-curses and S-Lang with MingW but it lacks a lot of > ncurses functions.
for example? > So has anybody been able to built ncurses with MingW (if possible > at all)? Any chance I could use PD-curses or S-Lang to replace all the > low-level Unix terminal stuff? PDCurses "should" work. It does have a panel library. For ncurses's form/menu libraries - I'm not sure how much work it would be to make them run with PDCurses. > AFAICS, if I'd port ncurses using S-Lang I need to replace writing of the > ESC sequences with S-Lang functions. Any other foreseeable problems > I should be aware of? Is this a futile task? That's futile - John Davis chose to make the binding incompatible with existing termcap stuff. I recall looking at that a while back to see if I could build tin with the termcap-level stuff (which essentially is most of slang's terminal interface), but there were a number of dummy-ed out definitions. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
