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Re: installing libncurses.a etc
- From: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:09:32 +1000
- Subject: Re: installing libncurses.a etc
- References: <20070508035829.GA3552@SALTERDUKE2> <463FF748.7040706@byu.net>
- Reply-to: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond dot net dot au>
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:06:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> 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
Many thanks. I should have known and just downloaded everything with
'ncurses' in the name. That has put the stuff in /usr/lib.
Regards, Brian.
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> Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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