Where is the "curses.h" ?

drumstick · 05-19-2005, 09:21 AM

Hello,

I have installed SuSE 9.3 Professional. I have a source code, but it needs "curses.h" header file. But it is not coming installed with the software I think. Which package group should I have to install, or where can I find it?

Thanks in advance...

abisko00 · 05-19-2005, 10:14 AM

Try to install the ncurses-devel package. If something like header files are missing, it's usually the devel-package that provides them.

EDIT: Don't know the package group, but YaST has a good search engine

drumstick · 05-19-2005, 02:28 PM

Hi,

First of all thank you for your help. "ncurses-devel" did it. But now I have another problem. This time I need "lcurses".

If anyone knows where it is, please reply. Thank you...

drumstick@linux:~/MazeProject> make
g++ -Wall Main.o Maze.o -o maze -lcurses
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [maze] Error 1

drumstick · 05-19-2005, 04:58 PM

This is a bit urgent guys. And I still couldn't find it.

So if you have any idea, please help. Thanks...

abisko00 · 05-20-2005, 02:27 AM

There might be an option in ./configure (if this is used) to decide whether to use curses or ncurses. Otherwise you may need yo adjust that in the makefile yourself.

kevinm3574 · 01-06-2006, 10:15 PM

install termcap rpm which has libcurses.so.? and libcurses.a. Make sure you link /usr/lib/curses/libcurses.a to /usr/lib/libcurses.a OR make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes /usr/lib/curses as not being able to find the .a file may make your compile fail even though it can now find the shared library file.