ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200229

[ncurses.git] / README.MinGW

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--- Copyright (c) 2008-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright 2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                           --
+-- Copyright 2008-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --

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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
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 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --


@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.8 2012/01/21 23:55:33 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.10 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $

 -- Author: Juergen Pfeifer
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 -- Author: Juergen Pfeifer
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@@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ to provide the includes, libraries and DLLs to be used with the more
 common traditional development environments on Windows, mainly with
 Microsoft Visual Studio.
 
 common traditional development environments on Windows, mainly with
 Microsoft Visual Studio.
 

-It is necessary to unset the TERM environment variable, to activate the
-Windows console-driver.
+The TERM environment variable must be set specially to active the Windows
+console-driver.  The driver checks if TERM is set to "#win32con" (explicit
+use) or if TERM is unset or empty (implicit).

 
 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
 
 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


@@ -83,7 +85,9 @@ hooks for interop, I recommend using these options:
          --enable-term-driver
          --enable-interop
 
          --enable-term-driver
          --enable-interop
 

-This is the configuration commandline as I'm using it at the moment (assuming environment variable MINGW_ROOT to hold the root directory name of your MinGW build):
+This is the configuration commandline as I'm using it at the moment (assuming
+environment variable MINGW_ROOT to hold the root directory name of your MinGW
+build):

 
 ./configure \
        --prefix=$MINGW_ROOT \
 
 ./configure \
        --prefix=$MINGW_ROOT \


@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@ experimental.
 
 A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
 
 
 A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
 

-  - Wide Character support
+  - Wide Character support (display is workable, but input untested)

     The Win32Con driver should actually only use Unicode in the
     future.
   - Thread support (locking). If using TDM toolchain this is done by
     The Win32Con driver should actually only use Unicode in the
     future.
   - Thread support (locking). If using TDM toolchain this is done by


@@ -131,5 +135,5 @@ A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
   - Workarounds for MinGW's filesystem access are necessary to make infocmp
     work (though tic works).
 
   - 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.
+To support terminfo, we would need to have an ioctl() simulation for the
+serial and networked terminals.