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GTK Based 3270 terminal emulator

pw3270 is a modern, GTK-based, completely free tn3270 emulator.

Created originally for Banco do Brasil, it's now an official Brazilian Government Public Software project, and is used worldwide.

See more details at https://softwarepublico.gov.br/social/pw3270/

Installation

Linux

For the supported distributions get the install repositories and instructions from https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3APerryWerneck%3Apw3270&package=pw3270

Windows

Building for Linux

```
$ git clone https://github.com/PerryWerneck/pw3270.git
$ cd pw3270
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make all
$ sudo make install
```

Building for Windows

Cross-compiling on SuSE Linux (Native or WSL)

  1. Add the MinGW Repositories

    $ sudo zypper ar obs://windows:mingw:win32 mingw32
$ sudo zypper ar obs://windows:mingw:win64 mingw64
$ sudo zypper ar obs://home:PerryWerneck:pw3270 pw3270
$ sudo zypper ref

  2. Run the build script

    $ wget https://github.com/PerryWerneck/pw3270/blob/master/win/pack.sh
$ ./pack.sh --pre-reqs

Windows native with MSYS2

  1. Build and install libv3270

  2. Install required packages

    $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-imagemagick mingw-w64-x86_64-optipng mingw-w64-x86_64-inkscape

    Afther thist close and reopen mingw shell.

  3. Get pw3270 sources from git

    $ git clone https://github.com/PerryWerneck/pw3270.git ./pw3270

  4. Build library using the mingw shell

    $ cd pw3270
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make all

Building for macOS (using homebrew)

  1. Build and install libv3270

  2. Install additional dependencies

    $ brew install adwaita-icon-theme imagemagick

  3. Configure and build

    $ ./autogen.sh
$ make all

  4. Create app bundle

    $ cd macos
$ ./bundle