commit b01769eac491d02d566a4516509f1a4985cf4f86
parent e93167f4b73635d28d88226fdbba7ac42373d3df
Author: William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:23:55 -0400
improve dlload of setlocale() and include cygwin
Now we catch errors instead of dying completely, and also add
the correct path for cygwin.
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/sup b/bin/sup
@@ -81,6 +81,33 @@ global_keymap = Keymap.new do |k|
k.add :recall_draft, "Edit most recent draft message", 'R'
end
+## the following magic enables wide characters when used with a ruby
+## ncurses.so that's been compiled against libncursesw. (note the w.) why
+## this works, i have no idea. much like pretty much every aspect of
+## dealing with curses. cargo cult programming at its best.
+##
+## BSD users: if libc.so.6 is not found, try installing compat6x.
+require 'dl/import'
+module LibC
+ extend DL::Importable
+ setlocale_lib = case Config::CONFIG['arch']
+ when /darwin/; "libc.dylib"
+ when /cygwin/; "cygwin1.dll"
+ else; "libc.so.6"
+ end
+
+ Redwood::log "dyamically loading setlocale() from #{setlocale_lib}"
+ begin
+ dlload setlocale_lib
+ extern "void setlocale(int, const char *)"
+ Redwood::log "setting locale..."
+ LibC.setlocale(6, "") # LC_ALL == 6
+ rescue RuntimeError => e
+ Redwood::log "cannot dlload setlocale(); ncurses wide character support probably broken."
+ Redwood::log "dlload error was #{e.class}: #{e.message}"
+ end
+end
+
def start_cursing
Ncurses.initscr
Ncurses.noecho
diff --git a/lib/sup.rb b/lib/sup.rb
@@ -6,19 +6,6 @@ require 'fileutils'
require 'gettext'
require 'curses'
-## the following magic enables wide characters when used with a ruby
-## ncurses.so that's been compiled against libncursesw. (note the w.) why
-## this works, i have no idea. much like pretty much every aspect of
-## dealing with curses. cargo cult programming at its best.
-
-require 'dl/import'
-module LibC
- extend DL::Importable
- dlload Config::CONFIG['arch'] =~ /darwin/ ? "libc.dylib" : "libc.so.6"
- extern "void setlocale(int, const char *)"
-end
-LibC.setlocale(6, "") # LC_ALL == 6
-
class Object
## this is for debugging purposes because i keep calling #id on the
## wrong object and i want it to throw an exception