Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BA645C3.2060008@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:49:39 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Didier Juges CC: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: problem with linking with NCurses library References: <280ACD22066CBF44A2607ACD0921567D04FB76@stck2.keltec.sigtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Didier Juges wrote: > I am new to Cygwin and I am trying to convert a program originally written > under Linux 2.0.36 with gcc 2.95 and linked with ncurses 4.2. > > I just installed cygwin in my Win98 machine and tested it by compiling my > favorite text editor: Joe's editor. That went well with no error after I > changed the makefile to point to gcc instead of cc. > > However, when I try to compile my software, the linker throws up on all the > ncurses function calls (the compilation goes OK though). > > An example of one of the many error messages is: > > "undefined reference to _imp__wrefresh" > > I noticed that there were curses libraries and ncurses libraries. I changed > the linker directive from -lncurses to -lcurses with no effect (same > errors). > > The program is written in C, not C++. > > Any suggestion would be appreciated. What is your complete link command line? Are you trying to link staticly? --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/