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PDCurses for Win32

This directory contains PDCurses source code files specific to Win32 console mode (Win95 and all subsequent forks of Windows).

Building

(Note that the following is almost identical to the instructions for the Win32a GUI flavor of PDCurses.)

  • Choose the appropriate makefile for your compiler:

      bccwin32.mak  - Borland C++ 4.0.2+
  dmcwin32.mak  - Digital Mars
  lccwin32.mak  - LCC-Win32
  mingwin32.mak - MinGW, Cygnus GNU Compiler
  vcwin32.mak   - Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ or later & Intel(R) compiler
  wccwin32.mak  - Open Watcom 1.8+

  • Optionally, you can build in a different directory than the platform directory by setting PDCURSES_SRCDIR to point to the directory where you unpacked PDCurses, and changing to your target directory:

      set PDCURSES_SRCDIR=c:\pdcurses

    This won't work with the LCC or Digital Mars makefiles, nor will the options described below.

  • Build it:

      make -f makefilename

    (For Watcom, use "wmake" instead of "make"; for MSVC, "nmake".) You'll get the libraries (pdcurses.lib or .a, depending on your compiler; and panel.lib or .a), the demos (*.exe), and a lot of object files. Note that the panel library is just a copy of the main library, provided for convenience; both panel and curses functions are in the main library.

    You can also give the optional parameter "WIDE=Y", to build the library with wide-character (Unicode) support:

      make -f mingwin32.mak WIDE=Y

    When built this way, the library is not compatible with Windows 9x, unless you also link with the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (not tested).

    For the Intel(R) compiler, use vcwin32.mak and add ICC=Y.

    By default, vcwin32.mak results in 64-bit code for both VC and Intel(R). Add IX86=Y to generate 32-bit code. (Other builds are 32-bit only.)

    Another option, "UTF8=Y", makes PDCurses ignore the system locale, and treat all narrow-character strings as UTF-8. This option has no effect unless WIDE=Y is also set. Use it to get around the poor support for UTF-8 in the Win32 console:

      make -f mingwin32.mak WIDE=Y UTF8=Y

    You can also use the optional parameter "DLL=Y" with Visual C++, MinGW or Cygwin, to build the library as a DLL:

      nmake -f vcwin32.mak WIDE=Y DLL=Y

    When you build the library as a Windows DLL, you must always define PDC_DLL_BUILD when linking against it. (Or, if you only want to use the DLL, you could add this definition to your curses.h.)

    If cross-compiling from Linux, add the parameter _w64=1 to get 64-bit code (default will be 32-bit).

      make -f mingwin32.mak _w64=1 [WIDE=Y UTF8=Y DLL=Y]

Distribution Status

The files in this directory are released to the Public Domain.

Acknowledgements

Generic Win32 port was provided by Chris Szurgot [email protected]