running winedbg hello.exe shouldn't use curses. the issue here is that since your app is a CUI app, winedbg creates it in a separate console, and the two "consoles" (winedbg's fake one - as unix fd:s -, and the debuggee's one - as a curses wineconsole backend).I just did a cvs update and reinstall, but I still have problems. Here's my test procedure: cd ~/wine/programs/winedbg write a hello, world program cl /Zi hello.c ./winedbg hello.exe
This reproduces two problems, and now today shows a third.
1. curses is used. I don't want winedbg, or any console program, to use curses, as it complicates simple things like logging output. (I seem to recall there's a way to switch this off now, but I couldn't see it in any doc or help messages. What's the trick?) The immediate symptom is reverse video, but the annoyance runs far deeper.
try removing as a quick hack the CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE flag in the CreateProcess call in programs/winedbg/winedbg.c around line 960, that should cure all your issues
(the two other items are related to this)
use winedbg -- --gdb if you really don't want wineconsole but do want proper terminal control
I might try that, but am more tempted to revive the libreadline patch. Would it be possible to have, next to winedbg, a winedbg-readline? Then us curses-haters and libreadline-lovers could coexist happily with those who understand and like wineconsole :-)
I this the work around above should make your happier (even if you won't get all the line-editing facilities of readline)
IMO, we shouldn't add readline to winedbg... if we really want to add readline, it should be IMO as a generic feature of all CUI programs supported in Wine, and not on a per app basis
yeah, I have this on my todo list to write down what's really going on with the consoles in Wine, the do:s and dont:s..., comparison between the three modes of consoles in wine (features, invocation...)BTW, I have no idea what wineconsole is or does, and posts like http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/12/0707.html tend to confirm my hypothesis that wineconsole is a strange, evil beast. It may be time for a good "What is Wineconsole and what does it do?" page in winehq (I looked, but couldn't find one).
A+
-- Eric Pouech
