Re: updated windows installer for PARI

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:23:18PM +0200, Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 2013/5/6 Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>:
> > * Bill Allombert [2013-05-06 21:01]:
> > 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 ?

We would need someone to confirm that Vista+rxvt+gp+readline works fine.

Cheers,
Bill.