On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:20:26 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:50:07 +0100
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
> >
> > Am 26.11.2025 um 11:32 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin:
> > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:58:01 +0100
> > > Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > >
> > >> Am 21.11.2025 um 17:46 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin:
> > >>> Hi Thomas,
> > >>>
> > >>> On Nov 21 16:46, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote:
> > >>>> Am 21.11.2025 um 11:04 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin:
> > >>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2025 10:15:55 +0200
> > >>>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> The procedure seems to be:
> > >>>>>>>> try LoadLibrary("conpty.dll"), (if not successful, fallback to
> > >>>>>>>> GetModuleHandle("kernel32") instead) to retrieve GetProcAddress for
> > >>>>>>>> CreatePseudoConsole, ResizePseudoConsole, ClosePseudoConsole, and
> > >>>>>>>> then somehow (?) use those while calling CreateProcess.
> > >>>>>>>> The latter is woven into the cygwin library and I don't think it's
> > >>>>>>>> a
> > >>>>>>>> good idea to clone that out of cygwin for a patched process
> > >>>>>>>> creation
> > >>>>>>>> in mintty.
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> My question/suggestion:
> > >>>>>>>> Can a cygwin mode switch to a selected conpty library instead of
> > >>>>>>>> the
> > >>>>>>>> default one please?
> > >>> Where do you expect this conpty.dll to reside?
> > >>>
> > >>> If we do something like that, I would suggest to make sure that this
> > >>> conpty.dll is in a well-defined place. /bin or /lib might be a good
> > >>> idea. And if it exists in this defined place, it will be used by Cygwin.
> > >>>
> > >>> We can tweak the autoload mechanism to allow a primary DLL and a
> > >>> fallback
> > >>> DLL, that drops the need to set the CYWIN env var.
> > >>>
> > >>> The mintty package could contain a post-install script, or some other
> > >>> script in /bin to allow a user with admin rights downloading the latest
> > >>> (or the most sensible) conpty.dll from MSFT.
> > >>>
> > >>> Would that make sense?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Corinna
> > >>>
> > >> That makes much sense, yes, thank you. /bin/conpty.dll would probably be
> > >> a good place.
> > > I checked the source of conpty.dll
> > > https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/src/winconpty/winconpty.cpp
> > >
> > > conpty.dll seems to launch OpenConsole.exe in the directory where
> > > WindowsTerminal is installed.
> > > However, BUILTIN\Users does not have permission to execute
> > > OpenConsole.exe.
> > >
> > > Do you have some idea how to solve this problem?
> > > WindowsTerminal itself can launch OpenConsole.exe, so there should be
> > > some solutions, I think.
> > Did you install the nuget package? It can be extracted with zip, so you
> > can install OpenConsole as a normal program...
> > I did not find a way, though, to invoke it explicitly so that it would
> > solve the pty interworking problems.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I've made an experimental patch against fhandler/pty.cc and
> draft package named openconsole that installs official OpenConsole.exe
> binary into /usr/bin.
>
> I confirmed the patch with openconsole package enables the mouse
> support for vim91 and neovim 0.8.0 (native windows binary) in
> pseudo console.
>
> Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
openconsole-1.23.12811.0-1.cygwin.patch fixed.
--
Takashi Yano <[email protected]>
--- origsrc/openconsole-1.23.12811.0/CYGWIN-PATCHES/libopenconsole.postinstall
1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900
+++ src/openconsole-1.23.12811.0/CYGWIN-PATCHES/libopenconsole.postinstall
2025-11-27 23:02:31.351921900 +0900
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+if [ $(uname -m) = "x86_64" ]
+then
+ POSTFIX="x64"
+else
+ POSTFIX="x86"
+fi
+VERSION=$(cat /etc/libopenconsole/version.txt)
+cd /tmp
+wget -q
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/download/v${VERSION}/Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.zip
-O - > Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.tmp
+if sha256sum --status -c
/etc/libopenconsole/Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.zip.sha256
+then
+ mv Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.tmp
Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.zip
+ unzip -jq Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.zip
'*/OpenConsole.exe'
+ mv OpenConsole.exe /usr/bin/.
+else
+ # Hash mismatch (or failed to download)
+ rm Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_${VERSION}_${POSTFIX}.tmp
+ exit 1
+fi
+chmod a+x /usr/bin/OpenConsole.exe
--- origsrc/openconsole-1.23.12811.0/CYGWIN-PATCHES/libopenconsole.preremove
1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900
+++ src/openconsole-1.23.12811.0/CYGWIN-PATCHES/libopenconsole.preremove
2025-11-27 23:02:31.351921900 +0900
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rm -f /usr/bin/OpenConsole.exe
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