[Python-Dev] Issue2889: Add Curses for Windows as native module for 2.6 (original) (raw)

techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sat May 24 13:09:52 CEST 2008

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> I would really like to see this as release blocker, because the problem > raised once in a while in the past and the windows people who are > interested in getting console interface tools usually lack the knowledge > of unix platform to do the task.

It certainly can't be a release blocker: there is no accepted PEP demanding it, it does not cause any crashes, and it is no regression over earlier releases. For this to have any chance, it must work with Visual Studio. Requiring gcc is unacceptable.

As for PDCurses library itself there is a Makefile in PDCurses distribution for Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ named vcwin32.mak I can't afford buying Visual Studio to test if it works with newer versions, but logically Visual Studio should be able to convert Makefile to a newer format.

As for extension I've provided .bat file that uses GCC for compilation and I think I have some ancient Visual C++ compiler to make the similar .bat file for cl.exe. But I doubt I'll be able to provide a patch for Python build system to compile the module into windows distribution, because I do not have much experience with Python build system and with C linking/makefiles in general. I know that PDCurses must be added to externals/, but that's all.

So even if can test and script Python part I am afraid I need help from someone with experience of Python+Make+Visual Studio.

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