Re: psql & readline & win32

> > Well, we should *at least* provide it from the source
> build. Since it
> > does work (with a small kludge, but it does work).
> > Me, I'm not fully happy with psql on win32. I want my tab
> completion!
> > (which the gui tools don't do either, from what I can tell.
> At least
> > pgadmin doesn't. Yet.)
> >
>
> Yeah, I am not against doing so and having more features is
> always cool! But I just suspect if we can afford the cost.
> Actually I tried a little bit on the "thrysoee" version you mentioned:
>
> $ ./config.guess
> i686-pc-mingw32
> $./configure
> ...
> configure: error: libtermcap, libcurses or libncurses are required!
>
> This may give us a hint that port is not very easy though.

You can get pdcurses to get past that step. But it's still not easy. See
for example http://www.coldie.net/node/131.

//Magnus