Re: Clink brings BASH features to CMD.exe. Scriptable in Lua

[Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@...>]

On 7/1/12 6:53 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com> [12-07-01 15:28]:
> > Just found this through Hacker News.
> > http://code.google.com/p/clink/
> >
> > >From the site:
> >
> > Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe".
> > If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the
> > changes that clink brings to "cmd.exe" (it uses the same 'Readline'
> > library that Bash uses). It is a small utility to enhance "cmd.exe",
> > adding more powerful command line completion, editing, and history.
> >
> > == Features ==
> >
> > Powerful Bash-like line editing from GNU's Readline library. Read more
> > on Readline's keyboard shortcuts.
> > Superior path completion (TAB).
> > Paste from clipboard (Ctrl-V).
> > Support for the completion of executables/commands, and environment variables.
> > Undo/Redo (Ctrl-_ or Ctrl-X, Ctrl-U)
> > Improved command line history.
> > Persists across sessions.
> > Searchable (Ctrl-R and Ctrl-S).
> > History expansion (e.g. !!, !<string>, and !$).
> > Scriptable completion using Lua.
> >
> > -- Pierre-Yves
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> I installed CLINK on a Windows XP SP3 (inside VitualBox) via the
> installer. When starting cmd.exe it pops up an error message,
> that it could not be started because it could not find the
> MSVCR100.dll. I reinstalled as adviced but it does not change
> anything.
>
> What can I do to fix that?
>
> Best regards,
> mcc

This should help:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555&mnui=0

Look below for links to x64 if the application is 64-bit.

Wonder if clink can't be recompiled either with static CRT, or with 
MSVCRT.DLL (through mingw, or through some other magic)