Curses, foiled again.

[foodog]

Heh, kinda like DEFINE LNK$LIBRARY_1 VAXCCURSE.  It doesn't seem to care
if I specify -lcurses or -lncurses.  Just kinda sits there looking hung
under X, but from a term window it's more promising :-)  Thanks much,
Nick (and thanks for taking a shot at it, Kevin).

I've got a religious question now.  Can you suggest a modern,
less-icky-than-curses, C friendly library?  Displaying in either X or
console would be cool but not required. I just need a "window" that I
can stuff text into, a subwindow, cursor around, and reverse video would
be handy (wsetattr seems to have fallen out of favor).

I'm trying to resurrect and enhance a homegrown tool from the dark ages.
Steve

P.S. I wanna see RMS meet the guy who did the /etc/termcap legalese :-)
:-) :-)

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Nick Estes wrote:
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> Your link errors might just vanish if you try linking it with the curses
> library.
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> cc bedit.c -lcurses (or perhaps -lncurses depending on your system)
> 
>         --Nick
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> On Sat, 4 May 2002, foodog wrote:
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> > I know this belongs on the developers list, but I'm not susbscribed to
> > it, rarely code anymore, and beseach thee to gimme a break.
> >
> > I'm trying to port a program written in VAX C circa 1988 that uses
> > Curses library calls. When I try to build it I get a bunch of errors,
> > specifically:
> >
> > [steve@gemini steve]$ cc bedit.c
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o: In function `main':
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x14e): undefined reference to `initscr'
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x172): undefined reference to `newwin'
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x1d2): undefined reference to `endwin'
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o: In function `edit_buffer':
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x369): undefined reference to `wprintw'
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x39d): undefined reference to `wmove'
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o: In function `first_screen':
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x414): undefined reference to `wrefresh'
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o: In function `key_not_supported':
> > /tmp/ccNUfExw.o(.text+0x5b4): undefined reference to `werase'
> > ... etc. etc. etc.
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > I'm including stdio.h and curses.h.  The functions are listed in
> > curses.h so I'm hoping there's some compiler switch I'm missing out on.
> > Also note:
> > $ rpm -qa | grep curses
> > ncurses-5.2-12
> > ncurses-devel-5.2-12
> >
> > Anybody got a hint?  TIA,
> > Steve
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