| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Should we work around msvc failing to compile tab-complete.c? |
| Date: | 2024-07-10 11:33:23 |
| Message-ID: | 376fd931-d902-4114-8ee1-466009f2793b@dunslane.net |
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On 2024-07-10 We 5:55 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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>
>
> What is more relevant is that as far as I can see, we've never
> actually supported either libedit or readline in MSVC++ builds - which
> kinda makes sense because Windows terminals are very different from
> traditional *nix ones. Windows isn't supported by either libedit or
> readline as far as I can see, except through a couple of forks.
>
> I imagine from mingw/cygwin builds, readline would only actually work
> properly in their respective terminals.
>
configure.ac explicitly forces --without-readline on win32, so no for
mingw. configure.ac claims there are issues especially with non-US code
pages.
One of the reasons I've continued to support building with Cygwin is
that its readline does seem to work, making its psql the best I know of
on Windows.
cheers
andrew
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Andrew Dunstan
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