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Just a note to the group that I'm progressing with E4W. I have it
building for 32-bit from Visual Studio 17.14.13 on Windows 10. No
release is ready at this time as I lack a way of testing. There is the
WOW thunk layer for running 32-bit apps on 64, but I'd prefer not to use
it for debugging the debugger ;) It might work, unsure. I guess I
should set up a development environment on XP in maybe a virtual machine
or something?

A 64-bit build is hampered by how the DbgHelp APIs have changed for
WIN64. Also the low-level aspects of how the extension sets debugger breakpoints on interested console API calls is just far too complex and fragile for me to manage.

A deep rewrite is needed to move to a method called trampolines provided
by the Detours library. Getting [interact] to work with that will be challenging, though. trampolines would run inside the spawned process
which means IPC mailboxing is needed for both directions.

https://github.com/davygrvy/expect4win
https://github.com/microsoft/Detours
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On 8/30/2025 1:22 AM, David Gravereaux wrote:

A deep rewrite is needed to move to a method called trampolines provided
by the Detours library.  Getting [interact] to work with that will be challenging, though.  trampolines would run inside the spawned process which means IPC mailboxing is needed for both directions.

https://github.com/davygrvy/expect4win
https://github.com/microsoft/Detours

https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/wiki

Expect builds for 64-bit now! A bare shell, though, and ready for me to
fill it.

https://github.com/davygrvy/expect4win/blob/d4b028f95ede1458c3685d4815be59a29b5d3cbf/win/expWinConsoleDetourer.cpp#L192

[exp_send_user] might be able to work in cooked mode on Win10 and 11 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
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