[BRLTTY] Screen, emacs and cursor routing

[Lars Bjørndal]

Replying to myself:

[Lars]
> [Dave]
>> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2012/01/08 at 22:11 +0100]
>> 
>> >Most of the time, I ssh to a Linux server, either from Windows or from
>> >Linux. From there, I connects to a screen session with 'screen -xx'.
>> >BRLTTY's cursor routing doesn't work all the time within Emacs.
>> >Sometimes the cursor moves a few characters, and then stops. It seems to
>> >work more reliable if I first press the end key to go to the end of
>> >line, and then press a CR key. Going the other way, from left to a
>> >character further to the right, does break, at least many times. Do
>> >anyone have a solution for this problem?
>> 
>> This problem should be fixed in the development code.
>
> Thanks a lot. It seems to work on Linux. I tried to compile for
> Windows/Cygwin, and got the following errors:

Here is the start of where the error messages started out:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/larbj/tmp/brltty-4.3dev/Programs'
gcc-3 -g -O2 -Wall -I. -I. -I./../Programs -I../Programs -I./.. -I..   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -c ./ctb_translate.c
In file included from ./ctb_translate.c:28:
./ctb_internal.h:138: error: parse error before "FILE"
./ctb_internal.h:138: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
./ctb_internal.h:138: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
./ctb_internal.h:138: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
./ctb_internal.h:139: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `external'
./ctb_internal.h:139: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
./ctb_internal.h:140: error: parse error before '}' token
./ctb_internal.h:140: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `data'
./ctb_internal.h:140: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
./ctb_internal.h:141: error: parse error before '}' token
./ctb_translate.c: In function `getContractionTableHeader':
./ctb_translate.c:52: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c: In function `getContractionTableItem':
./ctb_translate.c:57: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c: In function `getCharacterEntry':
./ctb_translate.c:85: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:89: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:100: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:100: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:101: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:105: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:108: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:109: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:113: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:114: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:115: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:115: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:116: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c:119: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
./ctb_translate.c: In function `contractText':
./ctb_translate.c:1158: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
Makefile:520: recipe for target `ctb_translate.o' failed
make[1]: *** [ctb_translate.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/larbj/tmp/brltty-4.3dev/Programs'
Makefile:57: recipe for target `all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Lars