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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

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