compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?

[Darik Horn]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Goldman <dgoldman@ehdp.com> wrote:
>
> What am I doing wrong? How do I use cygwin to compile the test ncurses
> program so it can run in a dos terminal, independent of cygwin? I looked
> around the docs and archives and could not figure out.

Was libncurses built for the MinGW target on the Cygwin host?

Keep in mind that this job is a cross compile, so ncurses and every
other dependency must be built for the MinGW runtime.  The mingw-* and
mingw64-* packages for Cygwin are just the toolchain plus some
essentials; there is no mingw-libncurses-devel package in
distribution.

Unless there is a specific reason to cross through Cygwin, it could be
easier to use the native MinGW environment directly:

* http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

And link against the ncurses redistributable:

* http://invisible-mirror.net/ncurses/ncurses.html

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