From: 065211 AT bud DOT cc DOT swin DOT edu DOT au (MURPHY, Jeremy W)
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Subject: Re: PDCurses problems..
Date: 27 Dec 2002 03:51:39 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On 25 Dec 2002, Eric Newton wrote:

: > 	I am trying to compile my curses program to DOS. I have sucessfully
: > installed DJGPP as a cross-compiler on UNIX, it can sucessfully build
: > DOS programs as well. But what I am having trouble with is PDCurses;
: > here is what I have done to install PDCurses:
: > 
: > <I downloaded and untared PDCurses-2.5>
: > #cd PDCurses-2.5
: > <I built PDCurses by doing: ./configure, make, make install>
:    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: This is your problem, right there: the procedure you followed builds a 
: Unix version of libpdcurses, not the DJGPP version.

: What you should do instead is either (1) download a DJGPP-precompiled 
: PDCurses library, or (2) build the library according to DJGPP-specific 
: instructions.

I had a look to download PDCurses, and the latest version, 2.6, is only 
available as an rpm.  Do you know if this is because there is no 
difference for DOS since 2.5?  Or is 2.6 source available elsewhere?

Jeremy