Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console

[Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot 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