Re: psql & readline & win32 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: psql & readline & win32
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7E18@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to psql & readline & win32  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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> > Well, we should *at least* provide it from the source
> build. Since it
> > does work (with a small kludge, but it does work).
> > Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab
> completion!
> > (which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell.
> At least
> > pgadmin doesn't. Yet.)
> >
>
> Yeah, I am not against doing so and having more features is
> always cool! But I just suspect if we can afford the cost.
> Actually I tried a little bit on the "thrysoee" version you mentioned:
>
> $ ./config.guess
> i686-pc-mingw32
> $./configure
> ...
> configure: error: libtermcap, libcurses or libncurses are required!
>
> This may give us a hint that port is not very easy though.

You can get pdcurses to get past that step. But it's still not easy. See
for example http://www.coldie.net/node/131.

//Magnus


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