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Re: [PATCH] Add support for Win32 term-driver for Cygwin


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for Win32 term-driver for Cygwin
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:06:41 -0400

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 04:09:33PM +0000, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> Separate the `_NC_WINDOWS` platform macro into `_NC_WINDOWS_NATIVE`, for
> MinGW and other native Win32 support, and `_NC_WINDOWS`, to make some
> Win32 features available under the Cygwin runtime, in this case the
> term-driver.
> 
> Make some minor adjustments to allow `./configure --enable-term-driver`
> to also work on Cygwin platforms such as Cygwin and MSYS2.

thanks - I'm in the middle of setting up some new build environments.
This change doesn't appear to break anything...
 
> Also, and unrelated, on native Win32, prefer `pwsh.exe`, followed by
> `powershell.exe`, followed by `cmd.exe` as the shell, in that order.

this detail won't work as it is, because the existing spawn to cmd.exe
doesn't provide an interactive shell (something to work on).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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