[BRLTTY] BRLTTY for Windows not working

[Samuel Thibault]

marquats at studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, le Wed 22 Sep 2010 16:37:10 +0200, a écrit :
> > The precompiled brltty is not built on cygwin but mingw. Cygwin uses
> > linux names (i.e. ttyS2), while mingw uses windows names (i.e. COM3).
> 
> Thanks for this hint. With -d serial:ttyS2 I came at least one step
> further :)
> 
> Now The braille terminal (Handytech Braille Star 40) is recognized by
> brltty, but my test prog can't open the connection: the function
> brlapi_openConnection returns -1.

Please use brlapi_perror("open") to print the error message.

Are you compiling your test prog in cygwin too?

Samuel