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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:48:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Jeff Scudder <jeffrey DOT scudder AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: undefined references compiling gcc with ncurses
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Jeff Scudder wrote:

> Greetings,
> I am a curses newbie and having trouble running a simple curses
> program. I haven't run into a discussion thus far on the specific
> problem I'm having and I imagine there is a simple solution. My
> program is named ctest.c and is as follows:
> [snip]
> And I compile using
>
> gcc -lncurses ctest.c
      ^^^^^^^^^
> When linking I get an undefined reference for each curses function.
> I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Classic newbie mistake.  Libraries should follow source/object files on
the gcc command line.  "gcc ctest.c -lncurses" should work.  Not
Cygwin-specific.
HTH,
	Igor
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