X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.MinGW;h=f23ef126de5d8e5b828dc72ec5a92538e31c5377;hp=56a2bca21e34bb565224f813b6cbec82cb3fa8a7;hb=3b3a6d094f484e799b1430782f1130a9af71a94e;hpb=47d2fb4537d9ad5bb14f4810561a327930ca4280 diff --git a/README.MinGW b/README.MinGW index 56a2bca2..f23ef126 100644 --- a/README.MinGW +++ b/README.MinGW @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.10 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.11 2020/07/11 13:31:30 juergen Exp $ -- Author: Juergen Pfeifer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -113,12 +113,6 @@ 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. -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. @@ -135,5 +129,9 @@ A lot is still TODO, e.g.: - Workarounds for MinGW's filesystem access are necessary to make infocmp work (though tic works). -To support terminfo, we would 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. +