X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:09:32 +1000 From: Brian Salter-Duke To: Eric Blake Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installing libncurses.a etc Message-ID: <20070508050932.GA3056@SALTERDUKE2> Reply-To: Brian Salter-Duke Mail-Followup-To: Eric Blake , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20070508035829.GA3552@SALTERDUKE2> <463FF748.7040706@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463FF748.7040706@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 ebb9@byu.net > -----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) b_duke@bigbond.net.au 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/