Rust cursive is a Rust TUI framework. It states that you can switch backends and some of which are Windows supported. However, I can't make it work. When I run the following command (grabbed from here) I got an error:
$ git clone https://github.com/gyscos/cursive
$ cd cursive/examples
$ cargo run -v --no-default-features --features pancurses-backend --example select
error: Package `cursive-examples v0.1.1-alpha.0 (C:\my_projects\cursive\examples)`
does not have the feature `pancurses-backend`
What's the correct way to run these examples on Windows?
As the error says, the examples
package does not have a pancurses-backend
feature, which if you look in examples/Cargo.toml
is correct. The pancurses-backend
feature is actually located in the Cargo.toml
for cursive
.
So to enable it, you have to do --features cursive/pancurses-backend
instead.
While the directory is somewhat misleadingly called examples
. You can't use --example
in this case, as they're not examples in the Cargo sense. Instead you need to use --bin
.
cargo run -v --no-default-features --features cursive/pancurses-backend --bin select