screen

[Harold L Hunt II]

Andrew,

I tried packaging screen a long time ago, and failed.

I got it compiling, but it didn't work correctly.  I seem to recall that 
it really didn't work at all.

The major obstacle to porting screen is that you have to understand how 
Cygwin handles terminals, which I don't, but maybe you do.  If you 
understand that, then it should be possible, but if not then I don't 
know what to tell you.

I just did a search of my web spaces and my local machine and couldn't 
find any trace of my efforts for packaging screen.  Sorry :(

Harold

Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> I'm going to try to build and package screen for Cygwin.  It's such a 
> useful program, I just have to try.
> 
> screen 4.0.2 won't compile OOTB in Cygwin:
> 
> gcc -c -I. -I.    -g -O2 misc.c
> misc.c: In function `xsetenv':
> misc.c:619: error: too few arguments to function `setenv'
> make: *** [misc.o] Error 1
> 
> I haven't looked into trying to fix this yet, it may be quite simple.
> 
> There are many references to a binary of screen 4.0.2 compiled for 
> Cygwin, and a corresponding patch, available at 
> http://www.fredlwm.hpg.ig.com.br/cygwin/screen/.  But that page has gone 
> dark, and I can't find a cached copy of it anywhere.  If someone has the 
> patch that was provided there, I'd appreciate it if you'd pass it along.
> 
> If anyone else has tried and failed to build or package screen for 
> Cygwin, or if you know anything else about the feasibility of this 
> little project, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
> 
> Andrew.