I had the same problem with ncurses, and in the config.log file found out that the ncurses.h was not being found.
I manually changed the configure script line #include <ncurses.h> to ---> #include <ncurses/ncurses.h> and configure got past that. The next and what I expect to be the last configure error is now related to the Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) configure can't find gsl-config and indeed there is not any. and there is no gls-dev package on the cygwin site. Is this an oversite? Or is there a gsl-dev development package and a gsl-cofig program in a pklace I can't find on the cygwin package repository? Thanks Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> wrote: > Am 17.09.2013 01:24, schrieb Warren Young: > > On 9/14/2013 15:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> Am 14.09.2013 17:15, schrieb wynfi...@gmail.com: > >>> checking for working ncurses... no > >>> configure: error: Cannot find a curses library. Perhaps you failed to > >>> install an ncurses development package? > > > > You may be able to dig more details out of config.log. It'll be > > thousands of lines long, and the error is rarely right at the end. > > So, look for something like "-lncurses" or "curses.h". The helpful > > bits in that file will be nearby. (And not necessarily *after* the > > matching line!) > > > > You're looking for the test program source emitted by the configure > > script and the errors your compiler gave when trying to compile it. > > > >> The files you quoted are the runtime libraries. > > > > Yes, but OP said: > > > >>> and cygcheck displays: > >>> x86/libncurses-devel/libncurses-devel-5.7-18 > > > > So, since the development package does seem to be installed, what > > does "cygcheck -c libncurses-devel" say? > Oh, I overlooked that one, as it starts with "lib" - I don't > understand that output format of cygcheck, actually. > > Another issue comes to my mind: cygwin (like some Linux distributions) > does not provide ncurses.h in /usr/include anymore but hides it in > /usr/include/ncurses and /usr/include/ncursesw. This may likely be the > problem; traditional packages don't find it there. > -- > Thomas > > -- > 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 > -- 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
