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2019-02-02Document that alacritty requires winpty-agent on windows Zac Pullar-Strecker
To make things easier to understand for Windows users, the relationship between Alacritty and the WinPTY agent has been clarified in the documentation. This also bundles the windows agent and exe together in a zip file to make distribution for windows easier on the user.
2019-01-28Add pkg-config to Debian dependenciesF. Eugene Aumson
2018-11-19Changed path to standard /usr/bin/..., registered as an x-terminal-emulator ↵Ilya Epifanov
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2018-11-14Move .deb building instructions to INSTALL.mdHellsenberg
This fixes #1541.
2018-10-27Move gentoo install instructions, add windows to table of contentsZac Pullar-Strecker
2018-10-16Add support for Windows (#1374)Zac Pullar-Strecker
Initial support for Windows is implemented using the winpty translation layer. Clipboard support for Windows is provided through the `clipboard` crate, and font rasterization is provided by RustType. The tty.rs file has been split into OS-specific files to separate standard pty handling from the winpty implementation. Several binary components are fetched via build script on windows including libclang and winpty. These could be integrated more directly in the future either by building those dependencies as part of the Alacritty build process or by leveraging git lfs to store the artifacts. Fixes #28.
2018-10-14Extract manual installation instructionsChristian Duerr
Alacritty's manual installation instructions take up a lot of space in the README and they are hard to navigate because there's a lot of information for specific distros which are irrelevant to most users. To improve this situation, the manual installation section has been moved to the `INSTALL.md` file. This allows keeping the readme to a minimum which just includes the straight-forward instructions required to install it on systems which provide packages for it. Having a separate file also makes it possible to add a full index just for the installation instructions, which makes it possible to skip sections which are irrelevant.