[Java-readline-devel] Re: JavaReadline for win32

[Bernhard B. <ma...@ba...>]

Hi David,

it seems to be impossible that a non-cygwin win32-binary (in this case 
java.exe) can load a cygwin-dll. There are numerous threads on this issue on 
the cygwin mailing-list. I managed to compile, but as soon as it loads, it 
barfs.
If you want to put some work into it: there is a pure Java implementation of 
readline called jline (I don't have the link right now, but I think it is on 
Sourceforge). It should probably be only a matter of a wrapper class to use 
jline as a backing library for JavaReadline. I will certainly don't have any 
time to work on this issue before automn.

The getline.dll was compiled with a native C compiler. You might try to 
download the MS-compiler (I read that it is freely available, the IDE not 
included) and try to compile it.

Please tell me about any results.

Thanks, Bernhard

> Bernhard,
>
> I'm hoping you can point me to in the right direction. I'm very
> interested in getting JavaReadline working on win32. However, using
> Cygwin to compile JRL 0.8.0 against Readline 4.2 doesn't seem to work.
> Actually, I've tried numerous combinations of MinGW's Win32 Readline
> Port 4.1 -> 4.2 and your JRL 0.7.2 -> 0.8.0.
>
> What I'm wondering is there any known combination of JavaReadline
> working against any known port of GNU Readline for win32?  If so, can
> you let me know where to acquire it?   If there isn't, then do you know
> if anyone has gotten Getline to work with Windows XP?  The dll provided
> in the contrib dir doesn't work in WinXP and I also was unsuccessful in
> getting Getline to compile on Cygwin/WinXP.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.  I've been using your library on Linux
> for the past year.  Thanks bringing a great component to the Java
> community! ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
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