From: Thomas D. <di...@hi...> - 2012-07-30 10:39:06
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:19:49AM +0200, waterlan wrote: > Mark Mikofski schreef op 2012-07-29 05:48: > > > nano's configure only looks for curses as -lcurses, -lncurses or > > -lslang(?). I've seen several post that say to copy, link or rename > > libpdcurses.a to libcurses.a, is this correct? > > Or another option would be to build ncurses, but I have seen posts > > that > > say, pd is for windoes, n is not, and when I tried to build, I > > realized > > that I would have to patch the source (i can't remember the compiler > > error, sorry). So not sure if ncurses can be built with mingw for > > windows? > > > > Hi, > > There exist a mingw32 port of ncurses, see > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ > > But this port does not support wide characters (Unicode). Actually, the code can be configured and built for Unicode. I've done this with cross-compiling. That aspect is untested (I've been busy with other features). > If you need Unicode support then your only choice is PDCurses at the > moment. As I read the code, some programs will behave differently. That's because PDCurses differs in the way it handles UTF-8 strings. Among other details, I didn't see anything to handle combining characters, or double-width cells. -- Thomas E. Dickey <di...@in...> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net |