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Windows support

Open retep998 opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

Is Windows support something that is planned on being supported eventually?

retep998 avatar Aug 11 '15 14:08 retep998

Windows support is something I've been thinking about, however it would almost definitely have to be within the context of Cygwin. The low-level parts of the library are all based on posix standards for portability, and I'm not sure they could be translated easily to Windows; furthermore, I have no experience with software development on Windows so I would be of no help for a port using native APIs.

In all, I think support for Cygwin is very possible, but native windows support is unlikely.

cpjreynolds avatar Aug 12 '15 22:08 cpjreynolds

The concept of a terminal being a grid of cells is exactly how the native Windows console works. While the low level details would need to be swapped out entirely with the Windows console API, I don't see any issues with the API of this library that would hinder that. I'd be happy to assist with implementing the native Windows support if that was desired.

retep998 avatar Aug 12 '15 23:08 retep998

I agree that native Windows support would be great, although I also have no windows background nor a windows computer. Possibly someone could copy what is being done on rustbox or termbox-go.

droundy avatar Sep 13 '15 11:09 droundy