On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:06:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGP/dI84KuGfSFAYARAvTQAKC/X3N88QrQZnYWO7WbinpKdHRFzwCeJaun > jpijSdp5qVod/8j+D6qeuQM= > =YPEL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post: 626 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia Phone 03-93992847. http://www.salter-duke.bigpondhosting.com/brian/index.htm Honorary Researcher Fellow, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Univ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
