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A small, portable GNU readline replacement for Linux, Windows and MacOS which is capable of handling UTF-8 characters. Unlike GNU readline, which is GPL, this library uses a BSD license and can be used in any kind of program.

Origin

This replxx implementation is based on the work by ArangoDB Team and Salvatore Sanfilippo and 10gen Inc. The goal is to create a zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement usable in Apache2 or BSD licensed programs.

Features

Requirements

To build this library, you will need a C++11-enabled compiler and some recent version of CMake.

Build instructions

*nix

  1. Create a build directory
mkdir -p build && cd build
  1. Build the library
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. && make
  1. Install the library at the default target location
sudo make install

The default installation location can be adjusted by setting the DESTDIR variable when invoking make install:

make DESTDIR=/tmp install

Windows

  1. Create a build directory in MS-DOS command prompt
md build
cd build
  1. Generate Visual Studio solution file with cmake
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
  1. Open the generated file replxx.sln in the build subdirectory with Visual Studio.

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Please test it everywhere you can and report back!