MinGW conio.h

[evanc9606]

Why does MinGW include the conio.h. I was using MinGW so I could make code that would compile on Windows and Linux distros. Reading that MinGW was a win32 port of the gnu compiler collection i was assuming that conio.h would also be on Linux. Then I found out the hard way that it is not.

[Texan40]

I believe that ncurses would meet your needs for both as it is available for *nix and windows. I don't think MinGW was developed for "cross-platform" solutions but only for creating native windows apps with GCC.

[evanc9606]

Thank you very much, I will look into ncurses.

[Duthomhas]

Helpful links:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/41965/#msg226792