X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <463FF748.7040706@byu.net> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 22:06:32 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, b_duke@bigpond.net.au Subject: Re: installing libncurses.a etc References: <20070508035829.GA3552@SALTERDUKE2> In-Reply-To: <20070508035829.GA3552@SALTERDUKE2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGP/dI84KuGfSFAYARAvTQAKC/X3N88QrQZnYWO7WbinpKdHRFzwCeJaun jpijSdp5qVod/8j+D6qeuQM= =YPEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/