Re: mutt on macOS and --with-curses=DIR

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 02:48:23PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 06:53:57PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

A workaround for now would be to just create a symlink under ~/sw/lib from
ncurses.so to your ncursesw.so file.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. There are a lot of missing symbols.

     ...
 "_wclear$NCURSES60", referenced from:
     _main in main.o
 "_wgetch$NCURSES60", referenced from:
     _mutt_getch in curs_lib.o
     _mutt_what_key in keymap.o
 "_wrefresh$NCURSES60", referenced from:
     _mutt_refresh in curs_lib.o
     __get_field in curs_lib.o
     _mutt_edit_file in curs_lib.o
     _mutt_endwin in curs_lib.o
     _mutt_yesorno_with_help in curs_lib.o
     _mutt_yesorno_with_help in curs_lib.o
     _mutt_do_pager in curs_lib.o
     ...
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64

It seems that the library in ~/sw/lib is being used, but the header file
for the system-wide library. $NCURSES60 appears only there

#define NCURSES_SUF_ABI60    "$NCURSES60"

and not in ~/sw/include/ncursesw/ncurses.h.

I think I replied too quickly last week.


exactly where?





Thanks.

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Let's back up and see if we can make more sense of things. How exactly have you run the configure command to compile ncurses? What is installed in your ~/sw/include and lib directory for ncurses, and Mutt will look inside ~/sw first since -I and -L are set. But it would be helpful to know what mutt is seeing in ~/sw so we know what all should be there to sufficiently "cover up" your system lib and includes. Maybe that's some combination of --disable-lib-suffixes and/or --enable-overwrite.

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