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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:49:39 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Didier Juges <JugesD AT keltec DOT sigtech DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with linking with NCurses library
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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



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