README.cygwin (6060B)
1 Using w3m on Cygwin 2 3 2003/02/20 4 Katsuyuki Watanabe 5 Dai Sato 6 7 You can use w3m on Windows with a UNIX compatible environment "Cygwin". For 8 detailed information of Cygwin, See http://cygwin.com/. 9 10 Build 11 12 After w3m-0.2, patches for Cygwin have been marged to w3m packages. If you use 13 cygwin-1.1.4 or later, w3m shuould be build without any problems. 14 (*) on Cygwin B20.1, you should add -luser32 to LOCAL_LIBRARIES 15 16 The newest version of termcap and ncurses package are recomended. Especially, 17 older versions of termcap have bugs in the entry for Cygwin which make the 18 screen collapsed. The problem was fixed in termcap-20001020-1. 19 20 Please make sure to execute ./configure before the make. The macros explained 21 in "Macros" are defined by ./configure, and they are nessary to make this 22 package. When you have some problem in making w3m, please check the points 23 below: 24 25 o Do make veryclean, then exec ./configure && make. 26 o Check gcc and binutils are properly installed. setup.exe might have 27 finished without reporting any errors, though the download of package 28 files was end in failure. In this case, you should try to setup again. 29 30 Using Cygwin with Win95/98/ME, configure will not run correctly when 31 environment variable CYGWIN includes "ntsec" and/or "ntea", because shell 32 scripts will not have executable attribute. It is recomended to remove "ntsec" 33 and "ntea" from environment variable CYGWIN to load cygwin1.dll for the first 34 time. 35 36 Macros 37 38 The macros below are defined in config.h for Cygwin environment. 39 40 USE_BINMODE_STREAM 41 With -dump, -dump_{head,source,both,extra} option, output to stdout are 42 done in binary mode. It might not been needed with cygwin-1.3.11 or later, 43 but remained for safe. 44 In common with Cygwin and EMX. 45 SUPPORT_DOS_DRIVE_PREFIX 46 The path names are handled as file names when they includes drive letters 47 like "C:", "C:/", "file://C:/", "file://C|/", and so on. 48 In common with Cygwin and EMX. 49 SUPPORT_NETBIOS_SHARE 50 URIs of common resources of NETBIOS in "//NETBIOSHOST/SHARE/PATH", 51 "file://NETBIOSHOST/SHARE/PATH" format are handled as file: schema instead 52 of ftp: schema. 53 Only for Cygwin environments. 54 SUPPORT_WIN9X_CONSOLE_MBCS 55 Search and line input to forms are supported. But input through IME is 56 available only with the local console when TERM=cygwin, and environment 57 variable CYGWIN is not include "tty". The restrictions avoid the problems 58 of the DOS prompt of Win9x and tty layer of Cygwin. For WinNT, the macro 59 doesn't change any behavior of w3m, IME is always available with local 60 consoles. 61 Only for Cygwin environments and LANG=JA. 62 63 Cooperation with Native Applications 64 65 When calling the Win32 Native Abblications, "File not found" errors might be 66 raised because of difference in formats of path name between Win32 and UNIX. 67 68 Local CGIs 69 70 Local CGIs in $LIB (/usr/local/lib/w3m/cgi-bin by default) use /usr/bin/perl. 71 If you want to use ActivePerl (a native application) and so on, please modify 72 the each scripts in $LIB with wrapper scripts as follows: 73 74 ------ /usr/local/bin/winperl ------ 75 #!/bin/sh 76 # wrapper script for Win32 Native Perl 77 PERL=/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl.exe 78 case $1 in 79 -*) 80 ;; 81 *) 82 SCRIPT=`cygpath -w $1` 83 shift 84 ;; 85 esac 86 exec "$PERL" "$SCRIPT" $@ 87 ------------------------------------ 88 89 Where the PERL= is the path of Native Perl in Cygwin context. cygpath 90 utilities come with Cygwin packages. 91 92 For directory listing, when "Use external program for directory listing" is 93 set "NO", you can browse the directory list without local CGIs. 94 95 Editors 96 97 w3m uses external editors to operate texts textareas and so on. You can use 98 any native application as the external editor with the script as below: 99 100 ------ /usr/local/lib/w3m/winedit ------ 101 #!/bin/sh 102 EDITOR='/cygdrive/c/Program Files/sakura/sakura.exe' 103 FILE=`cygpath -a -w $1` 104 exec "$EDITOR" "$FILE" 105 ---------------------------------------- 106 107 Where the EDITOR= is the path of Native editor in Cygwin context. 108 109 If you use inetd as a service in WinNT and connect to localhost by telnet, 110 the windows will be opened only if "Allow service to interact with the 111 desktop" is ON. 112 113 Known Bugs 114 115 LF is converted to CR+LF when use -dump or -dump-source options. 116 Make sure USE_BINMODE_STREAM was defined in compilation. Try to 117 re-configure and make, or set binmode to the environment variable CYGWIN. 118 Can't input through IME in DOS prompt of Win9x. 119 When "tty" is included in the environment variable CYGWIN, it is not 120 permitted to avoid problems in tty layer of Cygwin. Remove "tty" from 121 CYGWIN. 122 Cursor keys doesn't work when IME is ON in DOS prompt of Win9x. 123 This is the problem of DOS prompt of Win9x and tty layer of Cygwin. Use 124 C-f, C-b, C-p, and C-n instead. 125 Screen is not controled correctly in command prompt of WinNT. 126 Set the each size of screen buffer and window in a same value. 127 Can't use the mouse with DOS prompt or command prompt. 128 When "Quick Edit" is ON, mouse events are not handed to w3m. Set it OFF. 129 Mouse buttons behave funny with DOS prompt or command prompt. 130 In cygwin-1.3.15 or earlier, the escape sequence of the right and center 131 button of the mouse are inverted. It is fixed in cygwin-1.3.16-1. Please 132 make w3m in the environment you use, because w3m can't judge the versions 133 of Cygwin perfectly, 134 135 Others 136 137 In Cygwin environment, it should be confortable to use not DOS prompt or 138 command prompt but telnet clients like TeraTerm, PuTTY, and so on with inetd 139 in localhost, or other tools as rxvt or cygterm. 140 141 o rxvt with japanese enhancement: 142 rxvt on Cygwin 143 http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA021953/rxvt/ 144 compiled package 145 http://matsu-www.is.titech.ac.jp/~sohda/cygwin/dist/ 146 147 o cygterm: 148 CygTerm - Yet another Cygwin console 149 http://www.dd.iij4u.or.jp/~nsym/cygwin/cygterm/ 150 151