Anyone aware of a working curses binding for Windows?
Um, not a perfect answer to your question, unfortunately, but in case problems with curses would end up major obstacle for you:
- firstly, TextAdept is a Lua-based, MIT-licensed text editor, and quoting from its Installation page[1], "The Windows binary includes a precompiled version of pdcurses", so you could try to have a look at how it does that.
- secondly, there's a very interesting and cross-platform
alternative to curses named termbox: https://github.com/nsf/termbox; I
had great time using its Go port both on Win32 and Linux; unfortunately I
can't say much about any Lua bindings; quick googling found this:
https://bitbucket.org/ukaszg/termbox-lua_bindings/src, but no idea in what state it is.
- finally, I've once created a very very *very* barebones LuaJIT (FFI-based, so "pure LuaJIT", aiming to make it simple and that you can quickly check if it works for you or not) library for "gotoxy + readkey" functionality on Windows, also MIT licensed and available at: https://github.com/akavel/thud
