Re: Cygwin, ptys, porting Quint to Windows

[Marco Atzeri]

On 14/07/2011 3.56, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> How can we make Quint work on Windows? Pedro Lucas, QtOctave's
> ex-maintainer, glanced over the Quint and rightfully noticed that it's
> not going to work on Windows because it's using ptys to do terminal
> emulation. I heard that cygwin can provide a compatibility layer that
> will let us use ptys on Windows and will not require a substantial
> rewrite of the terminal emulation code. Does anyone know more about
> this? Can it be done transparently for Windows users who download the
> binary?
>
> TIA,
> - Jordi G. H.
cygwin is a unix-like layer and have ptys, so in theory it is feasible, 
but I have not yet tried
to build it.

Windows is another matter and we can not reuse the cygwin approuch.