Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!a5sR6gGxMfQtxJQ7Hv6f/A.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Boris Dorestand Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: on (not) finding a 64-bit version of readline.dll Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:50:58 -0300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: <86wnudza6l.fsf@example.com> References: <86blbt7e82.fsf@example.com> <1q7xabrxgx78p$.1ilb63g06xw4b.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5sR6gGxMfQtxJQ7Hv6f/A.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MvqIq3kqQwxEjtF2N4EAm08upIo= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:12324 JJ writes: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:03:46 +0100, David Brown wrote: >> On 08/03/2021 18:22, Boris Dorestand wrote: >>> I'm looking for a 64-bit version of readline.dll. Here's why. I'm >>> interested in running this very cool shell called Rash. >>> >> >> Have you looked into the msys2 project? It is an extensive port of all >> sorts of *nix programs, tools and libraries to Windows, with 32-bit and >> 64-bit versions. > > Unfortunately, the earliest x64 version of MSYS2 (20150916) contains > readline v6, instead of v5. > > https://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/ > > Though, there's a high chance that the v6 API is not backward compatible > with v5. That could explain why my first attempt at loading v8 did not work. I did not conclude anything yet and will look at it more carefully, but this might be the reason. What doesn't help, perhaps, is that the message I still get is that it can't find libreadline-5.dll when I put the file right there on the same directory as the executable. I would indeed like to try with v5 if I could. I suppose v6 has more changes than v8. Thanks!