Re: 1.5.25-15: First steps with ncurses programming: can NOT build Hello_world app

["Vincent R." <forumer at smartmobili dot com>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:59:13 +0000, Dave Korn
<dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Alexey Lyubimov wrote:
> 
>> 1. Why did initscr() and endwin() not require --enable-auto-import
>> option,
>> but refresh() does?
> 
>   It's because the initscr() and endwin() functions don't refer to the
>   _stdscr
> variable internally, so they don't trigger the linker to import anything
> from
> the ncurses DLL; i.e., it's just an incidental detail of the internal
> implementation of the code.
> 
>   (I'm about to commit a patch upstream that will turn on auto-import by
> default on cygwin, so future releases of binutils won't issue this
warning
> any
> more.)
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> 
Dave,

how can you answer to so many people on so different topics and on so
different ML.
Are you human ;-) ?




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