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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.