It seems like there isn’t any good reason the perl scripts for the MSVC build don’t support readline
Readline for windows is available as part of the GnuWin32 project.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm
It normally installs to “c:\Program Files\GnuWin32"
I’d update the scripts myself, but I’m not a PERL programmer.
From what I can see, you’d add another line to config.pl for readline, and then add some stuff to mkvcbuild.pm for psql to do something like:
if ($solution->{options}->{readline})
{
$psql->AddIncludeDir($solution->{options}->{readline} . '\include');
$psql->AddLibrary($solution->{options}->{readline} . '\lib\readline.lib');
$psql->AddLibrary($solution->{options}->{readline} . '\lib\history.lib');
}
And something to solution.pm in the part that builds pg_config.h that looks something like:
if ($self->{options}->{readline})
{
print O "#define HAVE_LIBREADLINE 1\n";
print O "#define HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H 1\n";
print O "#define HAVE_READLINE_HISTORY_H 1\n";
print O "#define USE_READLINE 1\n";
print O "#define USE_READLINE_STATIC 1\n";
}
(Not sure about the last line).
I don’t know if this is a good idea, but I would think this would make psql more “user-friendly” on windows.
Perhaps someone who understands readline and perl better than me might want to take this on?
