From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Curses in DJGPP
Date: 2 Aug 2001 11:35:21 GMT
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Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com> wrote:
> It looks like the ncurses library in DJGPP is broken.

Broken? Hmmm... last I looked, it didn't exist, in the first place. In
DJGPP, you have PDCurses, not NCurses.

> 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;

A typical sign of a C-born library that wasn't adapted to be
compatible with ANSI final standard C++.

Are you sure you have the latest version of PDCurses, there (2.5, IIRC)?

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