Re: [Mingw-users] Readline-4.3 for mingw

[Benjamin R. <Ben...@ep...>]

Hi Christoph,


"Christoph Bayer" <chr...@we...> writes:

>    I have trouble compiling lib readline-4.3 for mingw. There is
>    some terminal stuff missing in mingw.

If you mean the stuff that is supposed to be in <termios.h>, that
terminal I/O API is a POSIX feature.  Windows isn't POSIX and
Microsoft's runtime (which is the runtime used by Mingw) doesn't add
emulation for this.

Documentation for the runtime is at MSDN.  You may want to look at the
chapter "Input and Output"
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_crt_input_and_output.asp>,
espacially the subchapter "Console and Port I/O."

For the most detailed access to functionality Windows itself offers
it's own API, console I/O, see MSDN,
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/console_reference.asp>.


benny