1PDCurses for Win32 2================== 3 4This directory contains PDCurses source code files specific to Win32 5console mode (Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista). 6 7 8Building 9-------- 10 11. Choose the appropriate makefile for your compiler: 12 13 bccwin32.mak - Borland C++ 4.0.2+ 14 dmcwin32.mak - Digital Mars 15 gccwin32.mak - Cygnus GNU Compiler 16 lccwin32.mak - LCC-Win32 17 mingwin32.mak - MinGW 18 vcwin32.mak - Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ 19 wccwin32.mak - Watcom 10.6+ 20 21. Optionally, you can build in a different directory than the platform 22 directory by setting PDCURSES_SRCDIR to point to the directory where 23 you unpacked PDCurses, and changing to your target directory: 24 25 set PDCURSES_SRCDIR=c:\pdcurses 26 27 This won't work with the LCC or Digital Mars makefiles, nor will the 28 options described below. 29 30. Build it: 31 32 make -f makefilename 33 34 (For Watcom, use "wmake" instead of "make"; for MSVC, "nmake".) You'll 35 get the libraries (pdcurses.lib or .a, depending on your compiler; and 36 panel.lib or .a), the demos (*.exe), and a lot of object files. Note 37 that the panel library is just a copy of the main library, provided 38 for convenience; both panel and curses functions are in the main 39 library. 40 41 You can also give the optional parameter "WIDE=Y", to build the 42 library with wide-character (Unicode) support: 43 44 make -f mingwin32.mak WIDE=Y 45 46 When built this way, the library is not compatible with Windows 9x, 47 unless you also link with the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (not 48 tested). 49 50 Another option, "UTF8=Y", makes PDCurses ignore the system locale, and 51 treat all narrow-character strings as UTF-8. This option has no effect 52 unless WIDE=Y is also set. Use it to get around the poor support for 53 UTF-8 in the Win32 console: 54 55 make -f mingwin32.mak WIDE=Y UTF8=Y 56 57 You can also use the optional parameter "DLL=Y" with Visual C++, 58 MinGW or Cygwin, to build the library as a DLL: 59 60 nmake -f vcwin32.mak WIDE=Y DLL=Y 61 62 When you build the library as a Windows DLL, you must always define 63 PDCURSES_DLL_BUILD when linking against it. (Or, if you only want to 64 use the DLL, you could add this definition to your curses.h.) 65 66 67Distribution Status 68------------------- 69 70The files in this directory are released to the Public Domain. 71 72 73Acknowledgements 74---------------- 75 76Generic Win32 port was provided by Chris Szurgot <szurgot@itribe.net> 77