dynamic conpty loading

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 24 12:52, Old, Oliver via Cygwin wrote:
> > Where exactly is conpty.dll coming from? Does it have a public repo on
> > github or is it proprietary?
> 
> It's here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/winconpty
> 
> Microsoft distributes a pre-compiled version of it via NuGet. The source code
> license is MIT.

That's nice, because it means we can distribute it as part of the distro,
if we want that.  Somebody would have to volunteer to maintain the
package, that's all.

> > Can we build it ourselves?
> 
> It uses a vcxproj file for building. Would need MSBuild.

It's just a project file.  Shouldn't it be possible with not too much
effort to convert it to a Makefile?


Corinna