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| author | Zac Pullar-Strecker <zacps@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-11-24 19:00:57 +1300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-11-24 19:00:57 +1300 |
| commit | 77a10514ea2e5c1c42303b43d886a76c50ad065d (patch) | |
| tree | 09401dd5367b95ce06f96c0226325fbddc7161bc | |
| parent | 0d47cd25b90deecc2dbf40c8361d2310049fdde7 (diff) | |
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Document that alacritty requires winpty-agent on windows
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@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ nix-shell -A alacritty '<nixpkgs>' On windows you will need to have the `{architecture}-pc-windows-msvc` toolchain installed as well as [Clang 3.9 or greater](http://releases.llvm.org/download.html). +Alacritty requires winpty on windows to emulate UNIX's PTY API. +The agent is a single binary (`winpty-agent.exe`) which MUST be in the same directory as `alacritty.exe`. +It's included in binary releases and fetched by `build.rs` when compiled from source. + #### Other If you build Alacritty on another distribution, we would love some help |