I'm pretty new to linux, and was trying to get into the programming side of it. Unfortunately, however, after downloading some source code and attempting to compile it, the program errored out complaining of a few things:

undefined reference to "stdscr"
undefined reference to "mvprintw"
undefined reference to "refresh"

There are more errors than those three, but I'd rather keep this short, so I've omitted them to save time. It's almost like the ncurses library isn't there. I made sure that #include<ncurses.h> was in the file I'm attempting to compile, and also that all the functions in my program were referenced in "ncurses.h".

Sample call : mvprintw(0,0,"%s","Hello, World!");

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Are you using a Makefile, or compiling the source code "by hand" with a command at a terminal?

If compiling from the terminal, then make sure you have:

-lncurses

as one of the options to gcc. You have to explicitly tell the compiler to use an external library with the -l option. Using the #include directive is only half of what you need to get going...

Thanks for the information. I had no idea that was necessary
The code works now.

Once again, thank you.