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diff --git a/ncurses-5.9/README.MinGW b/ncurses-5.9/README.MinGW new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba8f8a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/ncurses-5.9/README.MinGW @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-- Copyright (c) 2008-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- -- +-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- +-- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- +-- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including -- +-- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, -- +-- distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell copies -- +-- of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished -- +-- to do so, subject to the following conditions: -- +-- -- +-- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included -- +-- in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. -- +-- -- +-- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS -- +-- OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF -- +-- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN -- +-- NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, -- +-- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR -- +-- OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE -- +-- USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -- +-- -- +-- Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright -- +-- holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the -- +-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- +-- authorization. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-- $Id$ +-- Author: Juergen Pfeifer +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This is work in progress, but it's in an state where one can see it +works at least on the Windows Console. + +You should install the MSYS package, so that you've a shell environment that +allows you to run the scripts, especially configure etc. You can get that +from http://www.mingw.org + +To build ncurses for native Windows, you need the MinGW toolchain. The +original MinGW toolchain from the above site is only for 32-Bit Windows. As +Windows Server - and also regular workstations - are moving to 64-Bit, it +seems to be reasonable to have a toolchain that supports both architectures. +I recommend to use the TDM gcc toolchain which you can find at +http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download. Go to the download section and select +the bundle installer for tdm64 (MinGW-w64). This installs a multilib version +of the gcc toolchain that can compile for native 32- and 64-Bit Windows +versions. It also comes with a working pthread implementation. + +The latest config and build scripts we use for MinGW have only been tested +for the gcc-4.4 compiler toolchain (or better). + +Using MinGW is a pragmatic decision, it's the easiest way to port this +heavily UNIX based sourcebase to native Windows. The goal is of course +to provide the includes, libraries and DLLs to be used with the more +common traditional development environments on Windows, mainly with +Microsoft Visual Studio. + +If you start a bash from the MSYS environment, please make sure that the +Microsoft Development tools are in your PATH right after the MinGW +tools. The LIB.EXE tool is the only one needed. You need this only if +you want to build DLLs that work with native Windows programs. If you +don't have any Microsoft Development tools on your machine, consider +at least to get the free "Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition". +It contains the LIB.EXE tool. You may also use this compiler to test +writing native Windows programs using the ncurses DLLs without using +MinGW then for writing apps. + +It is necessary to unset the TERM environment variable, to activate the +Windows console-driver. + +Please also make sure that MSYS links to the correct directory containing +your MinGW toolchain. For TDM this is usually C:\MinGW64. In your Windows +CMD.EXE command shell go to the MSYS root directory (most probably +C:\MSYS or C:\MSYS\1.0) and verify, that there is a junction point mingw +that points to the MinGW toolchain directory. If not, delete the mingw +directory and use the mklink command (or the linkd.exe utility on older +Windows) to create the junction point. + +This code requires WindowsNT 5.1 or better, which means on the client +Windows XP or better, on the server Windows Server 2003 or better. + +In order to build ncurses for the planned interop layer with .NET, we +recommend to use these options with configure + + --disable-home-terminfo + --enable-reentrant + --enable-sp-funcs + --enable-term-driver + --enable-interop + --with-pthread (if using TDM toolchain as recommended) + +This is the configuration commandline as I'm using it at the moment: + +./configure \ + --prefix=/mingw \ + --without-cxx-binding \ + --without-ada \ + --enable-warnings \ + --enable-assertions \ + --enable-reentrant \ + --with-debug \ + --with-normal \ + --disable-home-terminfo \ + --enable-sp-funcs \ + --enable-term-driver \ + --enable-interop \ + --with-pthread + +If you are on a 64-Bit Windows system and want to build a 32-Bit version +of ncurses, you may use this commandline for configuration (when using +the TDM toolchain): + +CC="gcc -m32" LD="ld -m32" ./configure \ + --prefix=/mingw \ + --without-cxx-binding \ + --without-ada \ + --enable-warnings \ + --enable-assertions \ + --enable-reentrant \ + --with-debug \ + --with-normal \ + --disable-home-terminfo \ + --enable-sp-funcs \ + --enable-term-driver \ + --enable-interop \ + --with-pthread + +All the options above are - like the whole Windows support - +experimental. + +In order to build the DLLs, after your regular make you must call + + make dlls + +A lot is still TODO, e.g.: + + - Wide Character support + The Win32Con driver should actually only use Unicode in the + future. + - Thread support (locking). If using TDM toolchain this is done by + configuring pthreads. + - A GUI console driver + - Support for Terminals attached via a serial port (via terminfo) + - Support for networked Terminal connections (via terminfo) + - Workarounds for MinGW's filesystem access are necessary to make infocmp + work (though tic works). + +To support terminfo, we need to have an ioctl() simulation for the +serial and networked Terminals. |