Re: updated windows installer for PARI

[LoÃc Grenià <loic.grenie@gmail.com>]

2013/5/6 Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>:
> * Bill Allombert [2013-05-06 21:01]:
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:12:24AM -0400, jacques G wrote:
>> > > I tested on some windows server 2008 and CTRL-C worked fine.
>> >
>> > 1. On my VISTA laptop, CTRL-C just rings the bell, while other
>> > readline controls seem to work fine. A cheap solution is
>> > decreasing the stack size, so a runaway computation
>> > (such as an impossible task) will stop when memory is low, sooner.
>>
>> Further experiment by Jacques shows that disabling readline
>> (with e.g. default(readline,0)) fix this issue and the one with
>> the cursor.
>>
>> So I plan to add to gprc.txt
>> readline=0.
>
> This would be unfortunate. Maybe we could try to understand
> what exactly goes wrong with MinGW's readline (or termcap ?).
>
> - preliminary testing: does e.g. MSYS bash work out-of-the box ?
>
> - how exactly did you get libreadline.a for MinGW ?
>
> - we could try linking with libncurses instead of libtermcap
> [ a while ago, the cygwin readline port used ncurses instead of termcap;
> the latter was broken ]
>
> - we could try a few different versions of readline
>
> - if nothing works and readline + MinGW remain broken maybe somebody
>   knows a *good* simple terminal that we could include in the installer
>   ...


    rxvt ?

         LoÃc