Re: Win32 Terminal capabilities

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: JohnD 
> To: octave-maintainer 'Rik'
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/4/5, Sun 20:38
> Subject: RE: Win32 Terminal capabilities
> 
>>  Message: 3
>>  Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:46:19 -0700
>>  From: Rik 
>>  To: Octave-Maintainers 
>>  Subject: Win32 Terminal capabilities
>>  Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> 
>>  4/4/15
>> 
>>  While trying to solve https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?44661 it
>>  became apparent that the Windows terminal is in line-buffered mode
> (requiring
>>  an <ENTER> at the end of input before it is passed to Octave for
> processing).
>>  This doesn't work for routines like pause() or kbhit() which need to
> process just a
>>  single keystroke.  When I look at the code for kbhit in sysdep.cc it leads
> to the
>>  raw_mode() function which is supposed to switch the terminal mode to
>>  unbuffered.  There are three #ifdef blocks in that function that decide
> which set
>>  of library functions to use to manipulate the terminal (HAVE_TERMIOS_H,
>>  HAVE_TERMIO_H, HAVE_SGTTY_H).
>> 
>>  When we cross-compile, however, none of the tests in configure.ac work and
> I
>>  find this in the mxe log file for octave:
>> 
>>  configure: WARNING: I couldn't find termios.h, termio.h, or sgtty.h!
>> 
>>  I also verified on a Windows machine with octave_config_info() that none
> of the
>>  #defines are set.
>> 
>>  Does anyone know which terminal might be available?  I'd like to try
> adding a
>>  manual '-DOPTION' to the configure command for octave and see if 
> that
> works.
>>  And longer term, is there a package we could add to mxe that would give us
> one
>>  of these terminal options?
>> 
>>  --Rik
>> 
> 
> 
> Termcap is installed.
> 
> The closest other terminal library available for windows would probally be
> ncurses, but isn't installed in mxe.


Before the mxe were appeared, binaries for windows (MinGW and MinGW: Ver. 3.0, 
3.2, 3.4, 3.6) were built with the ncurses. I do not know why these binaries 
used the ncurses but not the termcap.

Tatsuro