PDCurses for Win32 ================== This directory contains PDCurses source code files specific to Win32 console mode (Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista). Building -------- . Choose the appropriate makefile for your compiler: bccwin32.mak - Borland C++ 4.0.2+ dmcwin32.mak - Digital Mars gccwin32.mak - Cygnus GNU Compiler lccwin32.mak - LCC-Win32 mingwin32.mak - MinGW vcwin32.mak - Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ wccwin32.mak - Watcom 10.6+ . 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). 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 PDCURSES_DLL_BUILD when linking against it. (Or, if you only want to use the DLL, you could add this definition to your curses.h.) Distribution Status ------------------- The files in this directory are released to the Public Domain. Acknowledgements ---------------- Generic Win32 port was provided by Chris Szurgot <szurgot@itribe.net>