ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200711

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--- Copyright (c) 2008-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright 2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                           --
+-- Copyright 2008-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --

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 -- 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             --


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--- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.7 2012/01/07 21:26:05 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.11 2020/07/11 13:31:30 juergen 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 \


@@ -109,18 +113,12 @@ export PATH_SEPARATOR=";"
 in order to parse the terminfo paths correctly. Terminfo paths should
 always be separated by a seeeemicolon,even when running under MSYS.
 
 in order to parse the terminfo paths correctly. Terminfo paths should
 always be separated by a seeeemicolon,even when running under MSYS.
 

-To support regular expressions properly, ncurses under MinGW should be
-linked against the gnurx regex library, which must be built separately
-under MinGW.  See
-
-    ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/libgnurx-src-2.5.zip
-

 All the options above are - like the whole Windows support -
 experimental.
 
 A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
 
 All the options above are - like the whole Windows support -
 experimental.
 
 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 +129,9 @@ 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.
+Recent Windows 10 releases have a new Console implementation that supports
+ANSI-style terminal emulation. Also, there is a new "Windows Terminal" App
+from Microsoft that hosts the new Console in a tabbed user interface. With
+this, it is possble to try using terminfo, the TERM environment varianle
+should be set to ms-terminal.
+