Re: [Mingw-users] [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU readline 4.1

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

--- stefan <st...@lk...> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am pleased to announce the release of the GNU readline packgage version
> 4.1 ported to MinGW32. Thanks to Paul S. for giving much help and hints.
> 
> The package is available at the SourceForge project file list at
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep/>.
> 
> P.S. Below is the ChangeLog with the relevant entries:
> 
> Release 4.1 Thu Nov 23 11:28:21  2000
> 
>         * put all previous ports of the GNU readline library together,
>           thanks Paul Sokolovsky (2.0), Earnie Boyd (2.2) and 
>           Michael Rickmann (4.0)
>         * using native FindFirstFile() and appropriate functions for
>           filename completions
>         * library can now be build with the M$VC compiler
>         * enhanced tilde completion via GetUserName()
>         * the paren matching function uses WaitForSingleObject() instead 
>           of select()
> 

Hi Stefan,

Did you per chance use the -fnative-struct switch to build the library?  I ask
because if you use -fnative-struct it is more likely to be able to be used by
M$VC even though it was built with gcc.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:ear...@ya...

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