rxvt for cygwin64?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 24/12/2015 09:12, qrasmfu8f4@snkmail.com wrote:
> I've been using cygwin's rxvt (without X) for years, and prefer it to mintty both because I use rxvt on all my linux machines and because I've never liked putty.  Despite most (but not all) of my Windows machines running 64-but windows7, I've procrastinated on switching to cygwin64, but I recently had to replace my laptop with a new Windows 10 machine, and figured I might as well install cygwin64.  Everything went well until I discovered rxvt is not available in 64-bit.  I found this thread (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00016.html) from 9/2013 in the archives, but there doesn't seem to have been any resolution.
>
> Is there any plan to port rxvt to cygwin64?

no plan.
rxvt is dead upstream, and rxvt without X is a hell and without
a maintainer by long time

mintty is a much better solution and with an active maintainer

> If not, does anyone have any hints so I can try it myself (I have 35 years of system software development experience, but I never worked on any cygwin software)?
>
>      thanks,
>      Peter

Regards
Marco


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