Provides Java bindings for various native APIs.

Available bindings

Generic

• Get and set UNIX file mode.
• Get PID of current process.

Terminal and console

These bindings work for both the UNIX terminal and Windows console:

• Determine if stdout/stderr are attached to a terminal.
• Query the terminal size.
• Switch between bold and normal mode on the terminal.
• Change foreground color on the terminal.
• Move terminal cursor up, down, left, right, start of line.
• Clear to end of line.

Currently ported to OS X, Linux, Solaris and Windows. Tested on:

• OS X 10.7.4
• Ubunutu 12.04 (amd64)
• Solaris 11 (x86)
• Windows 7 (amd64)

Building

You will need a very recent snapshot of Gradle.

Ubuntu

The g++ compiler is required to build the native library. You will need to g++ package for this. Generally this is already installed.

You need to install the libncurses5-dev package to pick up the ncurses header files. Also worth installing the ncurses-doc package too.

Windows

You need to install Visual studio, and build from a Visual studio command prompt.

OS X

The g++ compiler is required to build the native library. You will need to install the XCode tools for this.

Solaris

For Solaris 11, you need to install the development/gcc-45 and system/header packages.

TODO

• Package up native lib into self-extracting jar.
• Fix TERM=dumb
• Split out separate native library for terminal handling.
• String names for errno values.
• Split into multiple projects.
• Build 32 bit and 64 bit libraries.
• Test on IBM JVM.
• Convert to c.
• Thread safety.
• Windows: flush System.out or System.err on attribute change.
• Solaris: fix unicode file name handling.