Reading char-by-char from STDIN

reasonablekeith has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Caveats being.. must run under Windows, without a c compiler.

As far as I can see, the lack of compiler means I can't install Term::Readkey, (which doesn't come with the recent version of active-state perl I'm using). I did find Hotkey.pm in the docs, but that dies because...

POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecture
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I also tried the solution proposed in How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?, that got a single character, but I still had to wait for <RETURN>

I do have Term::Cap, so if there's a way of doing a readmode('cbreak') equivalent that might be an option. Other than that I've drawn a bit of a blank. Anyone?

Cheers, Rob.

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my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.

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Re: Reading char-by-char from STDIN by davidrw (Prior) on May 13, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
Can you install Term::Readkey via ppm? run `ppm3` in a dos prompt and then do: `install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Term-ReadKey.ppd` [download] Update: Activestate has the latest version (2.30) as well, so you should just be able to run `install TermReadKey` inside ppm3. Update: fixed my capn -> cpan typo.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Reading char-by-char from STDIN by reasonablekeith (Deacon) on May 13, 2005 at 16:09 UTC
I did try to install it via the CPAN module, which fails on a make. I've never used ppm; I'll give it a go. Thanks --- my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.	[reply]
Re: Reading char-by-char from STDIN by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2005 at 03:38 UTC
use cygwin and then you have a complete environment including the gcc compiler, X windows, the whole bit (or any subset). http://www.cygwin.com download setup.exe and run it and follow the prompts you'll need to select some of the pkgs in addition to the default set, things like gcc, make, lynx, wget, perl, less, etc. once you've got the environment setup, you can run the CPAN.pm shell, and download and compile whatever modules you need good luck! donq	[reply]