From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: ncurses or termcap
26 Sep 1998 07:57:21 -0700
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Hi Hal,

>I have a Word Star like editor that I would like to compile in the gnu-win32
>environment. Everything compiles but I need a curses or a termcap library to
>link to. Is there such a library in the B19 release? 
>
>Am I foolish to try to compile an editor that I love but didn't write and
>don't know much about? It compiles on all the versions of unix I have
>encountered and it used to work on MS-DOS but I need either termcap or
>curses. 
>
>I am getting the following undefined symbols when I try to use curses:
>tigetstr, setupterm, tigetflag, tparm, tputs, tigetnum. 
>
>I get the following undefined symbols when I try to use termcap: tgetent,
>tgetflag, tgetstr, tgoto, tputs, tgetnum. 

Did you try:

   *ncurses-4.1*
   -----------

   - what is it?
     - As soon as a text application needs to directly control its
       output to the screen (e.g. wants to place the cursor at location
       x y and then write text), ncurses is used. The panel and the
       forms libraries are included in this package. These new
       libraries support color, special  characters and panels.

   - system
     - Windows NT4 German / SP3

   - preliminaries
     - /bin/sh has to be *bash, not ash*
       - umount /bin (if mounted)
       - cp <cygnus>/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe

   - configure
     - works without changes

   - make
     - works without changes

   - make install
     - works without changes

   - notes
     - works the same way for ncurses-4.2
       (according to noer AT cygnus DOT com  (Geoffrey Noer))

   - package availability
     - on ftp.franken.de
     - in /pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
     - as ncurses-4.1-win32-bin.tar.gz
     - or ncurses-4.1-win32-bin.zip

   - contributed by
     - mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)

???

>
>Thanks, Hal

Bye.
Michael.
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