Re: [Seed7-users] Failure on 'chkflt' tests after build on Win8.1

[Arnel <jal...@gm...>]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:56:16 +0100, "Thomas Mertes" <tho...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Arnel,
> 
> I was able to install MSYS2 and gcc 5.3 from mingw64.
> So I could test Seed7 with MSYS2 and gcc 5.3.
> 
> In the latest release of Seed7 (2016-02-29) I fixed the error with
> the floating point compare function. The other floating point error
> (Sci operator for float with many digits does not work correct.)
> does not show up. Maybe it was fixed in a previous Seed7 release.
> Please update to the newest Seed7 release. With that no errors
> should show up. If the tests still fail please tell me.

That's great to hear. I already saw the new version a day or so ago, and
confirmed there are no more errors. Thanks for the fix.
 
> There is another issue with the MSYS2 console. Programs that want
> to read single key presses without echo (e.g. kbd.sd7) do
> not work. AFAIK this is a bug in the MSYS2 console (I found hints
> for that by googling). The programs that have problems in the
> MSYS2 console work without any problem in the windows console.
> Just start kbd.sd7 in both consoles to see the difference.
> In the windows console kbd.sd7 is terminated with ! and in the
> MSYS2 console it must be terminated with CTRL-C (since it just
> hangs).
> 
> I found out that the function getch() (from conio.h) does cause
> the hang up in the MSYS2 console. So the MSYS2 console should be
> fixed or there should be special code in Seed7 to circumvent this
> error. Maybe you have an idea.

I also saw that, but unfortunately:

(1) I'm not sure where to report that issue since the MSYS2 repository at
Github appears to be related more to package management than the actual
MSYS-2.0 project;

(2) I've been on Linux (Ubuntu) for a week now, so I will probably spend less
time on my Windows box to acclimatize myself to this new environment (Seed7 is
already set up here anyway :))

At any rate, thank you for the quick response, and apologies for not being able
to assist on the MSYS2 issue.

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Thank you,
Arnel