A build script I have used forever containing the line
gcc -o execname ./{various.a} -lncurses
has failed in a new installation today of Cygwin, with the error message
ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
The installation script to build Cygwin has not altered, taking the form
setup-x86 -P (list of packages}
unchanged between <old installation, not more than 3 months old> and <new
installation, today>
But a comparison of new installed.db with old installed.db shows that the new
installation lacks various library components that the old installation
possesses, including all of
libncurses10 libncurses10-5.9-20150307-1.tar.bz2 0
libncurses8 libncurses8-5.5-10.tar.bz2 0
libncurses-devel libncurses-devel-5.9-20150307-1.tar.bz2 0
libncursesw-devel libncursesw-devel-5.9-20150307-1.tar.bz2 0
(and a few others besides).
Although the {list of packages} called for the installation 3 months ago and
the installation today is unchanged, something has led to the reduced
provision. Can anybody help me recover whatever is necessary to make the line
gcc ... -lncurses
work as it used to?
Thank you.
Fergus
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