We're developing a C++ software package which depends on the GNU readline library and we usually build using gcc (requiring at least version 4). Now we would like to port this to Windows, obtaining a statically linked version which we can redistribute without requiring compilation by users.

I've tried several approaches:

  • Building using Cygwin (no go with the provided readline combined with -mno-cygwin or a MinGW compiler),
  • Building using MinGW and readline from GnuWin32 (unresolved dependencies to stat64, which I could not resolve),
  • Building using MinGW and building readline and required pdcurses from source (most promising approach, got to a static binary! But the obtained interactive shell behaved incorrectly, e.g. backspace was not visualized).

Any ideas how we might get one of the approaches to work?

c++ windows cygwin mingw libreadline
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