Sheri wrote:
> Sheri wrote:
>
>> Philip Hazel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The new options work for me on a Linux system. I have no way of testing
>>> that they work on Windows (assuming that the libreadline, libz, and
>>> libbz2 libraries are available on Windows). If anyone can test this,
>>> please do! Checking that the basic build works without the new options
>>> would also be useful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> No doubt this shouldn't be expected to work. I should probably be
>> building readline myself.
>>
>> But I got Binaries, Developer Files and Documentation files here:
>>
>> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm
>>
>> First I tried just putting Readline5.dll and History5.dll into my build
>> directory. Make complained that it couldn't find readline/readline.h or
>> readline/history.h
>>
>> So I copied the readline directory from the Developer files into my
>> build directory.
>>
>> Now make complained, cannot find -lreadline
>>
>> So I renamed readline5.dll and history5.dll to readline.dll and
>> history.dll respectively.
>>
>> Make completed.
>>
>> Tried to run pcretest. It complained that it couldn't find
>> readline5.dll. So I renamed readline.dll and history.dll to
>> readline5.dll and history5.dll.
>>
>> Now pcretest --help runs and reports that it will use readline if input
>> is a terminal.
>>
>> Because of the naming descrepancies I doubted it would really work.
>>
>> I ran runtest.bat and got numerous failures in all but tests 1, 2, 3, 7
>> and 10.
>>
>> I did think all of runtest.bat would work as before (since input is
>> files not terminal), but obviously not.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sheri
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I tried building my own readline in Msys (downloaded current version
> 5.2) but I ran into problems with undefined references (something like
> undefined reference to tput)
>
> So I went back to the 5.0 windows binaries I had previously downloaded.
> Rebuilt pcre in Msys using cmakesetup to create a verbose makefile,
> including my usual options (plus enable readline support). After it
> bombed trying to link pcretest to readline.dll, I manually linked
> pcretest to readline5.dll instead. Runtest.bat still gets all the
> failures previously noted. Does Runtest.bat achieve expected results on
> Linux and other non-Windows OS's when readline support is enabled? As
> before, only tests 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10 are free of exceptions here.
>
> Regards,
> Sheri
>
>
>
FWIW, I verified that readline's key bindings are working for editing
pcretest input in my Windows command shell.
Regards,
Sheri
