[Box Backup] Readline support on Windows

[Peter Jalajas, GigaLock Backup Services]

Hi Achim,
I don't know if this helps at all, but as I recall building on Ubuntu,
I had to install some -dev packages first. Maybe some of that applies
to MingW? Googling, I just found this:
> > >   120  apt-get install libreadline5-dev
> > That should be sufficient if you give --enable-gnu-readline.
> > >   126  apt-get install libedit2 libedit-dev libeditline-dev
> > Alternatively, libeditline-dev should probably be sufficient by
> > itself (and without the above configure option).
Hope that helps.
Pete


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Achim <achim+box at qustodium.net> wrote:
> Hello list:
>
> Has anybody been able already to build Box Backup under MingW with some
> kind of readline support? I have tried the following options, and
> unfortunately I am not able to compile any of them under MingW:
>
> Readline (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html)
> libedit (http://thrysoee.dk/editline/)
> libeditline (http://www.wanderinghorse.net/computing/editline/)
> Libedit (https://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/)
>
> Some probably exist already precompiled for Cygwin, but that would pull in
> all the other Cygwin dependencies as well.
>
> Any ideas? The best references I found were these threads [1,2], but they
> also ends without a conclusive answer...
>
> Thanks in advance, Achim
>
> PS: Readline hopefully rememdies the anoying behaviour in which Box Backup
> quits when I press CTRL+C. This happens, for instance, when you are typing
> in the wrong command, and simply want to start with a fresh line, instead
> of having to delete the whole line letter by letter with backspace. It also
> happens when you use the "-r" (recursive) flag with list, but don't want to
> wait for *all* entries to scroll by...
>
> [1] <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/29192/focus=29252>
> [2] <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2008-January/009066.html>
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