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Support for Windows is broken since GNU Midnight Commander started using
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glib. If you want to revive the project, it may be your last chance.
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If nobody volunteers, all the code for the native Windows port will be
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removed from the project.
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GNU Midnight Commander for Win32
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0. Introduction
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1. Compiling
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2. Changes made
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3. Authors and maintainers
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0. Introduction
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Yes, Midnight Commander can be compiled for Win32 (all versions of
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Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 for all platforms, except
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Windows CE). It may be tricky to compile, it may be buggy, but it should
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be usable. Maybe you can help as a beta tester or as a programmer.
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In either case you would like subscribe to the mc-devel list (see README
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and FAQ) and contact us.
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Please note that Midnight Commander remains primarily a file manager for
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UNIX-like systems. You should not expect that it will work on your
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system better than a file manager written specifically for your OS.
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1. Compiling
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1.1. Compiler
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If you really want to enjoy free software under your non-free OS,
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you should try free compilers. Two of them are supported: RSXNT and
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MinGW. Please visit their respective sites for more information.
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RSXNT: http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~rainer/
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MinGW: http://www.mingw.org/
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MinGW is also included with Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/).
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Cygwin environment is so close to UNIX, that it's possible to compile
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GNU Midnight Commander in the same way as it's done in UNIX (see file
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INSTALL for details). However, you should realize that you would get a
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UNIX program that has no idea about drives, Windows-style permissions
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and some other Windows-specific features. This is not the Win32 port
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discussed in this document.
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Speaking of non-free compilers, Microsoft Visual C++ (4.0 and above) and
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Borland C++ are supported. "Supported" means merely that there are
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specific makefiles for those compilers, but it does not even assume that
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they will compile GNU Midnight Commander out-of-box.
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1.2. General issues
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See pc/README, pc/BUGS, pc/TODO for the information concerning current
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state of the port. You will need to hack the code a lot just to
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compile it.
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1.3 Windowing Library
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Currently only support for the S-Lang windowing library is provided.
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There are curses clones ported to Win32, but I believe that since we
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are not using autoconf for the Win32 port, we should avoid unnecessary
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difficulties.
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Currently the Win32 port only can use S-Lang included in this
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distribution (see slang/ subdirectory). This is a subset of S-Lang
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distribution with some bugfixes and MC-specific code changes.
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1.4 Features and Limitations
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Internal editor is supported (including syntax highlighting).
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Internal viewer is supported (including hex editor).
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VFS (virtual file system) is not supported.
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Concurrent subshell is not supported.
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2. Changes made
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2.1. Changes to main code
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Changes in the main code are enclosed in #ifdef NATIVE_WIN32 blocks.
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In some cases we suppressed code. This is temporal (so that mc can compile).
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In the future we will provide fake or true interfaces for these features.
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- Links: creation and information on links are not supported. We
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should provide a fake interface for the local filesystem and
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a true one for networked.
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- GID/UID queries (get_user, owner, preserve UID/GID on copy, ...).
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- Terminals: all the code directly done with terminals must be suppressed.
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- Signals: deleted. Should support the native ones.
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- pipes: had some trouble in ext.c and with error_pipes but soon will be
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fixed.
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- Chown command: Not supported yet.
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2.2. Files rewritten
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There are several files with so many changes that they have been moved
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to pc/ subdirectory. Our intention should be, however, to make most code
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system-independent. This would increase code reuse and maintainability.
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See pc/ subdirectory for further details.
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3. Authors and maintainers
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The code is not actively maintained, but the patches are applied.
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Please send your changes to the mc-devel list.
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