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bug #62575: Garbled ANSI color codes in Cygwin mintty

Submitter:  Stephan Bergmann <sberg>
Submitted:  Fri 03 Jun 2022 01:24:26 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Enhancement
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Component Version:  4.3 Operating System:  MS Windows
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
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Fri 03 Jun 2022 04:13:01 PM UTC, comment #4: 

AFAIK, ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING is supported only since Windows 10, so using it unconditionally is out of the question.

Moreover, I don't understand why should Make do anything about that , instead of leaving it to the user to set up the terminal so that escape sequences are automatically handled by the terminal, the same way as this happens on Unix.  Am I missing something?

Eli Zaretskii <eliz>
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Fri 03 Jun 2022 03:48:44 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Just to clarify: Stephan is running make with the -O option.  It may have escaped your notice Gisle.  Any testing of the problem reported needs to use that option as well, or you won't see the issue I'm sure.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Fri 03 Jun 2022 02:44:12 PM UTC, comment #2: 


> sh -c 'clang -fansi-escape-codes -fcolor-diagnostics'


Why this when `clang` is giving nice colours w/o any problems
on Windows anyway?

Please do not add this patch without checking that the
`ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING` works. And it does not work
when "Use legacy console" is in effect. Ref:
https://techcult.com/enable-or-disable-legacy-console-for-command-prompt-and-powershell-in-windows-10/

Gisle Vanem <gvanem>
Fri 03 Jun 2022 01:47:07 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I'll have to let @eliz comment on whether this should be enabled for all Windows builds, or not.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Fri 03 Jun 2022 01:24:26 PM UTC, original submission:  

I experienced this with `make` built for native Windows (not Cygwin), and run in Cygwin mintty 3.6.1 on Windows 11:

$ cat Makefile
.PHONY test:
        sh -c 'clang -fansi-escape-codes -fcolor-diagnostics'
$ make -O -j2
sh -c 'clang -fansi-escape-codes -fcolor-diagnostics'
clang: ←[0;1;31merror: ←[0m←[1mno input files←[0m
make: *** [Makefile:2: test] Error 1

where clang's ANSI color-coded "error: no input files" stderr output was not displaying in red and bold, but rather with verbatim "←[0;1;31m".

What would fix it for me (but see my "I don't know if it is appropriate to execute this unconditionally on Windows") is the attached 0001-Enable-ANSI-color-codes-in-pump_from_tmp-on-Windows.patch.

Stephan Bergmann <sberg>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2023-01-08 psmith Item GroupNone Enhancement
    2022-06-03 psmith Operating SystemNone MS Windows
    2022-06-03 sberg Attached File- Added 0001-Enable-ANSI-color-codes-in-pump_from_tmp-on-Windows.patch, #53271

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