On Thu, 24 May 2012 15:36:57 -0400, LM wrote:
> Not sure if elinks is supposed to build and work on Windows or not,
> but I downloaded elinks-0.12pre5 and attempted to build it in MinGW
> with msys.  Had a couple of issues with compiling.
> In src/terminal/kbd.c, there was no define for VERASE and it had
> issues with vdisable as well, so I defaulted vdisable to -1 and set a
> define for VERASE just to get it to compile.
>
> I did get it to build successfully, but when I tried to run it, I saw
> the following on screen:
> ?9h?1000h
> Then I got a pop-up window that the application had crashed:
> elinks.exe has stopped working
>
> Saw some previous posts in the list archives about MinGW support, so 
> I
> had hoped this would build on Windows.  Are there any other Windows
> patches around or does anyone have any idea what else to try to get
> this working?
>
> Also saw the post in the archive where someone suggested adding
> support for pdcurses.  Couldn't help wondering if that would work
> better than termcap/terminfo at least on Windows (which doesn't 
> really
> have that).
>
> Had hoped to tried elinks out and see what it could do.  Any further
> suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
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Hi,
I'm not sure about 0.12 or MinGW, but I was able to get 0.13 to compile 
on Cygwin without any issues.
-David
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