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Reputation: 95

Can I install rlwrap on windows? Or this is only for linux?

I can't find a guide to install on Windows.

https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap.

If installation on Windows is not possible, are there analogues for Windows?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1434

Answers (1)

Hans Lub
Hans Lub

Reputation: 5678

The rlwrap README mentions:

As it is often used with older or even obsolete software, rlwrap strives to compile and run on a fairly wide range of not necessarily recent Unix-like systems (FreeBSD, OSX, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, cygwin, linux and probably quite a few more)

Windows in itself is not sufficiently Unix-like to be on that list, but cygwin (GPL), and, more recently WSL (free as in beer), provide a compatibility layer that allows you to install rlwrap (there are pre-packaged versions if you don't want to build from source) on a Windows machine.

That said, unlike the ususal Linux terminal emulators, the Windows console appears to have a history and line-editing mechanism built in that makes rlwrap a bit less necessary under Windows than on a Unix-like machine.

Keep in mind that rlwrap cannot wrap just any windows console app, but in general only unix-like programs, so you'll need cygwin or WSL anyway to have any use for it.

Upvotes: 1

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