From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Message-ID: <5BF60CD649EDD411A04600B0D049F53AFFA97A@hydmail02.hyd.wilco-int.com>
Subject: Curses in DJGPP
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:05:54 +0530 
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It looks like the ncurses library in DJGPP is broken.

I have a simple program like this...

#include <curses.h>

int main ()
{
  return 0;
}


When I try to compile  it using gcc as shown below, it works fine..

gcc -c test.c

But unfortunately, the program I'm writing is in C++. When I try compiling
the C++ version, I get an error like this..

gpp -c test.cc

In file included from test.cc:1:
d:/djgpp/include/curses.h:426: declaration does not declare anything

The line 426 in curses.h is simply this..

typedef unsigned char bool;

which looks fine. Perhaps something went wrong in the #ifdefs in curses.h...

Worse still, my program actually uses STL. When I include a header like
<vector> along with curses.h, it gives me unimaginable errors ;-).

Has someone come across this and is there some kind of fix. My program
compiles under GNU/Linux with absolutely no problems.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Prashant
--
Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>  Web: http://www.midpec.com/

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
     -- Henry Spencer


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