Running the Win32 ports of SciTECO using Wine

SciTECO Windows builds will also work in Wine. This is useful when cross-compiling, developing and debugging the Windows port under Linux.

• You can download Windows binaries both for releases and nightly builds. They include PDCurses-based GUI and console variants as well as Gtk-based builds.
• ncurses for MinGW somewhat works. Setting LINES and COLS as described below is not necessary for that port. However, you may encounter problems with the window size if Wine allocates a too large screen buffer for the program - SciTECO does currently not react to screen buffer changes on ncurses/MinGW and PDCurses/win32.

To run the PDCurses win32 port (plain console mode application), you must launch the application using wineconsole and specify the LINES and COLS environment variables (may be a bug in Wine or PDCurses):

$ LINES=25 COLS=80 wineconsole sciteco.exe

This will create an X11 window emulating the Windows console. Specifying wineconsole --backend=curses enables a console emulation using Curses. In either case, SciTECO will not react to window size changes and stay at 25 lines and 80 columns.

Cross-debugging under Wine

It is possible to cross-debug the Windows port under Linux using the cross-gdb and native win32 gdbserver.exe that comes with your MinGW64 toolchain. To do that, simply run the gdbserver.exe under Wine like this:

$ LINES=25 COLS=80 wineconsole /usr/share/win32/gdbserver :8000 sciteco.exe

This also works with stripped binaries. In another console load the sciteco.exe (with debugging symbols!) into the cross debugger (usually i686-w64-mingw32-gdb) and connect to the server via target remote :8000.

Known Bugs

• Piping from other commands into SciTECO is broken (see bug report).
• Keyboard input is broken in the Gtk port.

For more details, see TODO.

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