Native port of zsh 3.0.8 to Windows.

Compiled & working with::

• Windows SDK 6.1, 7.0, 7.1
• Visual Studio Express 2008 (command line cl) with Windows SDK 6.x, 7.x
• Visual Studio Express 2010 (command line cl) with Windows SDK 7.x in 32 and 64 bit mode
• Mingw32 gcc 3.4.5 && win32api 3.11, Mingw32 gcc 4.4.+ && win32api 3.14+ Not tested with mingw gcc 4.6.2, see thread http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-10/msg00253.html for sejmp/longjmp problems
• Mingw64 TDM gcc 4.5.1 64 bit
• gcc 4.x on Slackware 13.0 and 13.1
• gcc 3.3 on Interix

Pre-requisites:

• a GNU-make compatible make. mingw32-make from the mingw project is
  available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/make/
  nmake cannot parse the Makefile.
• sed 4.2.1
• awk 3.1.6
  get them from the Gnuwin32 project, and put sed and gawk in PATH.
• a C compiler ;-). Add the path for the compiler and tools to Windows +PATH+.

The configure step is not used for Windows, and a pre-built Win32/config.h and Win32/Makefile are used. Before starting the compilation some environment variables must be set, depending on the compiler:

rem for mingw32
set CC=gcc
set RC=windres
set C_ENV=MINGW32

rem for mingw64
set CC=gcc
set RC=windres
set C_ENV=MINGW64

rem for Microsoft compiler 32 bits
set CC=cl
set RC=rc
set C_ENV=MSC32
rem

For Microsoft command line compilers add the path to the Windows SDK to the environment variables LIB= and INCLUDE=.

Then, from the Src directory

mingw32-make -f Win32/Makefile

For Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2008 and 2010 pre-defined project files are in Src/Win32/vsexpr-08 and Src/Win32/vsexpr-10. These project do not generate the needed .pro files, use the Win32/Makefile.

The installation is manual, the install target in Win32/Makefile is not used.

Todo

User visible differences from the original zsh 3.0.5 port to win32, by Amol Deshpande:

• Removed support for Windows 95/98/Me and earlier
  Enforced at startup reading the Windows version. Some Win32 API used, like +GetFileAttributesEx()+, +SetFilePointerEx()+ are Version 5.0+ ONLY. NTFS filesystem required. Not tested on FAT.

• No codepage muching
  Removed +ZSH_DONTSETCP+ environment variable and function.

• Removed builtins

  • ps - Task Manager is always available
  • shutdown - There is a native %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\shutdown.exe
  • start - Use a new cmd.exe window

• Removed support for non standard configuration files
  The standard files work just as well

• Removed the environment variable ZSHROOT
  Added to the original zsh for Windows. Use a /bin directory

• Removed NT-specific setopts

  • winntnoassociations
    Always try applications associated with extensions
  • winntwaitforguiapps Always execute GUI apps asynchronously

Added

• Better support for #! in shell scripts
• Full PATHEXT handling
• Hack to support /C or /c instead of -c on invocation and special parsing of the command line when /C or /c is used
• Integrated configurable logger
• Builtin test command understands Windows junctions
• Many many many bug fixes
• New upstream zsh 3.0.8
  Well, not so new.
  It brings some enhancements to zsh, like 64 bit arithmetic

This port inherits from many other efforts. It was originally based on the zsh 3.0.5 port by Amol Deshpande. Using and fixing this port I found an improved "fork" library in the win32 directory of the tcsh tree (http://www.tcsh.org). After merging the new files I and ported the result to zsh 3.0.8. Still some files in the zsh/ntport directory had a copyright statement with conditions that were difficult to comply with. The WinZsh effort (http://zsh-nt.sourceforge.net) obtained the permission to change the license for some zsh-specific files to 3-clause BSD. One last step was to find a replacement for the GPL licensed termcap.c. It was found in ANSICON (https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon) and tconsole.c is based on that project.

Now all the files in the Win32 directory are unded 3 clause BSD or MIT-style licenses.

Todo