Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console

[Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 04:08:46PM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote:
>> Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> And if I read the pdcurses maintainer's reply correctly, the response
>> is
>>> "if you want terminfo, look somewhere else."  Readline is not going to
>>> become a curses-based application, so it appears that using pdcurses
>>> with readline is a dead end.
>> What would you recommend then for a mingw readline-based application
>> that is run from a Windows console?

>> I suppose I could just provide my own terminfo stubs and link with that
>> to satisfy readline... The only reason that I was trying to link in a
>> curses library was to satisfy readline terminfo dependencies.

> GDB and its included readline should already build on mingw32 without
> a curses library.  Make sure you're using a current version.

GDB does build without curses, but the GDB TUI won't work without.

Sorry for the delayed response, it's taken a while to check.

Andrew