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>On 2000-11-13, 17:41, Doug Kaufman wrote:
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>DK> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>DK>
>DK> > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Fiber McGee wrote:
>DK> >
>DK> > > The message below from Andreas Fehr
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>DK> > > of the list maintainers.
>DK> > >
>DK> > > >I have a problem with compiling 2.8.3 with MingW32 and slang support.
>DK> > > >
>DK> > > >In fact compiling works, but the lynx.exe is not usable. I can 
>start it
>DK> > > >and load some page with 'G)o' but I'm not able to navigate the 
>page with
>DK> > > >the arrow keys. I was not able to set them correct and navigating 
>in vi
>DK> >
>DK> > I think I observed that (I test-built the slang version with cygwin -
>DK> > arrow keys don't work), and noted that in the change log for OS/2
>DK> > (similar configuration).  I'm not sure who maintains the slang port
>DK> > (my own interest is ncurses).
>DK>
>DK> I don't know if anyone maintains the SLang port, but I compile the
>DK> cygwin port of lynx with both ncurses and slang. It works fine for
>DK> me using either. The arrow keys all work. This is with 2.8.4dev.10
>DK> as the last build that I did. I have never tried to compile with
>DK> MingW32. I would check to be sure that you compiled slang correctly.
>DK> It does not use the configure script, but creates the makefile from
>DK> a master makefile (I think in separate subdirectory). I also looked
>DK> at a PDCurses build, but PDCurses doesn't seem fully functional under
>DK> cygwin. The slang port doesn't require a termcap or terminfo database.
>DK> The ncurses version of the cygwin port doesn't display properly
>DK> with the cygwin terminfo description that comes with ncurses, but
>DK> seems to do fine with the cygwin termcap that comes with the current
>DK> distribution of cygwin.
>
>Slang compiles correct and works correct. I use slrn as news reader and
>this works without problems. Both, slang and slrn, are compiled with
>MingW32 so I think my slang is OK.
>
>If you may give me a hint, where (file and function) to find the cursor
>(arrow) handling, I may give it a try and dive in the code.
>But I don't like to (and don't have the time) to find the correct file
>and function myself. I thought it is in LYMainLoop.c, but there are to
>many #ifdefs than I could figure out within 5 minutes. So some hint
>would be appreciate.
>
>Mentioning 2.8.4, I tried to compile it but the compiler fails on
>LYMain.c, line 1298 complaining about an undefined 'LYNX_CFG_FILE'.
>(dev14)
>
>And finally, if I don't get slang working,
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>--
>Andreas Fehr
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