Yes I do have the ncurses files, I just listed the "curses", but for both I have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev1 None 12 Sep 3 10:35 libcurses.a -> libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev1 None 16 Sep 3 10:35 libcurses.dll.a -> libncurses.dll.a -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1 root 124594 Mar 27 14:21 libncurses++.a -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1 root 175426 Mar 27 14:21 libncurses++.dll.a -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1 root 1031 Mar 27 14:21 libncurses++.la -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1 root 291542 Mar 27 14:20 libncurses.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 dev1 root 335738 Mar 27 14:20 libncurses.dll.a -rw-r--r-- 1 dev1 root 937 Mar 27 14:21 libncurses.la in /bin I have: -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 67584 Mar 1 2009 /bin/cygncurses++-8.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 341504 Mar 27 14:25 /bin/cygncurses++-9.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 242176 Mar 1 2009 /bin/cygncurses-8.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 167936 Mar 27 14:25 /bin/cygncurses-9.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 229376 Aug 9 2003 /bin/cygncurses7.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 5209 Mar 27 14:21 /bin/ncurses9-config Is it possible that the varible declared in the downloaded .a file does not match its corresonding name or location representation in the .dll file? Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > d.henman wrote: > > > in lib there is for "curses": > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev1 None 12 Sep 3 10:35 /lib/libcurses.a -> libncurses.a > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev1 None 16 Sep 3 10:35 /lib/libcurses.dll.a -> > > libncurses.dll.a > > You should have the libncurses .a files to which those symlinks point, but > don't. Have you installed the libncurses-devel package yet? > > cheers, > DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple