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Links to dialog and dialog-like utilities for use mainly with scripting or possibly creating simple GUIs with C programs are covered below. Dialog utilities are typically used on POSIX systems. There are some notes on portability to Windows platforms.

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Dialog
https://web.archive.org/web/20130602021132/http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Dialog_howto
How To for building Dialog on OpenWatcom. It builds on MinGW with msys just as well. However, a few of the lines in the OpenWatcom patches for handling directory structures differently aren't needed. Dialog provides console GUI interaction for batch and shell scripts.

I have a newer set of patches for dialog that adds more feature support on Windows. If there's interest, I can upload the source code as part of my LM BLD project at some point: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/lmbld.htm

LM BLD ui patches
http://www.distasis.com/cpp/lmbld.htm#lmbldui
Patches to cross-platform portable browsers so that they can be used as user interfaces. Offers the ability to create user interfaces with basic HTML and CSS. Can work with UTF-8 files to support internationalization. I personally prefer this method to scripting with dialog. HTML and CSS are standardized and there's more control over the look and feel of dialogs.

Gui It !
http://www.lprp.fr/soft/misc/guiit/guiit_en.php3?lid=320
WxWidgets based front ends using simple XML configuration files.

yad
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-dialog/
Yet another dialog, this is a fork of zenity with many added features. Uses GTK+ 2 to offer Windows look and feel for user interface objects and offers cross-platform use. Support for MinGW has been added to the source code. GTK+ 3 port available.

zenity
http://www.placella.com/software/zenity/
This provides a simple GUI interface for batch and shell scripts. It's been ported from POSIX systems to work with MinGW, msys and GTK+ 2. Similar to Dialog, but possibly less functions. Latest version of zenity supports GTK+ 3.

gxmessage
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/programs.html
Builds with MinGW and msys if GTK libraries (2 or 3) are installed. Similar to Dialog but slightly different functionality.

Xdialog
http://xdialog.free.fr/
Builds with MinGW and msys if GTK libraries are installed. Dialog port using GTK instead of pdcurses. Used following configure options: ./configure --with-gtk2 --with-scanf-calls.

gtkdialog
https://web.archive.org/web/20120303170146/http://linux.pte.hu/~pipas/gtkdialog
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/gtkdialog
Has much more functionality than Dialog or Zenity. Compiles and builds fine with MinGW and msys. However, when run to produce a dialog through a script, it hangs, presumably due to threading issues on Windows. Tried adding -mwindows -mthreads to CFLAGS and -lpthread to the libraries, but worked the same.

lxdialog
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog?id=HEAD
Haven't tried porting this to Windows. It provides a dialog like interface for Linux kernel configuration.

libdialog
http://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-stable/src/gnu/lib/libdialog/
FreeBSD dialog library for use with C programs.