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Re: Trying to build rxvt on Cygwin64.
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Robert McBroom <mcforum at bellsouth dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:40:12 +0400
- Subject: Re: Trying to build rxvt on Cygwin64.
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Robert McBroom!
>>> The source tar balls I can find of rxvt are quite old and the config.guess
>>> in the package doesn't recognize a win 7 x64, Cygwin64 system. Any pointers
>>> to getting a x64 rxvt to build?
>> If you're not building it out of pure curiosity, I suggest you state your
>> intentions more clearly.
>> If all you want is a graphical terminal window, look into mintty shipped with
>> modern cygwin installations.
> I'm accustomed to using rxvt. I know how to set all the options that I
> want to use. mintty is to limited and xterm has too much stuff.
mintty is based on the PuTTY source code, is very robust and well-tested.
If you find a feature missing in mintty, you may ask the author to include it,
or to explain it's absence.
Last I checked, rxvt do not have support for UNICODE, aside from one not very
well working hack.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 03.09.2013, <15:37>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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