glerm

A Gleam wrapper around crossterm to create terminal applications

Quick start

Caveats

Currently, this only works on Linux. Gleam doesn’t support any mechanism to build the NIFs on your machine. To get around this for now, I am shipping pre-compiled library files in the priv/ directory.

The .dll for windows does actually allow the program to run. Most of the methods seem to work, but unfortunately the blocking event::read() call just hangs. I expect this is some interaction between erlang, crossterm, and Windows. I may try to look more into this, but right now I don’t really know what the issue is. Would love some help with this if possible!

I tried to build this on my Intel Macbook, but got some errors from rustler. I’m not sure if that’s not considered a supported platform anymore by them, but it’s also currently not working. Any help with that would also be appreciated.

I don’t have access to anything ARM, so unfortunately will not be able to provide anything in that regard.

Getting started

The docs should hopefully be helpful. Additionally, there is at least one example usage in examples/ that you can run with gleam run (if you are using a version of Gleam that supports path dependencies).

Installation

If available on Hex this package can be added to your Gleam project:

gleam add glerm

and its documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/glerm.