Re: installing libncurses.a etc

[Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:06:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Brian Salter-Duke on 5/7/2007 9:58 PM:
> > I have just installed cygwin on a new laptop, so it is a very recent
> > version. I want to try to compile an application that needs ncurses.
> > However, configure can not find ncurses, and indeed libcurses.a and its
> > friends are not in /usr/lib.
> 
> Not everything gets installed by default.
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.what-packages
> 
> Trying this:
>   $ cygcheck -p libncurses.a
> shows that you need to install:
>   libncurses-devel

Many thanks. I should have known and just downloaded everything with
'ncurses' in the name. That has put the stuff in /usr/lib.

Regards, Brian.
 
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> 
> Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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