How do I install standard unix libraries like ncurses/curses?

MarisaG · September 14, 2022, 1:23am

Trying to port over some more games and I am getting errors that curses.h is not found. Steps to install it?

mazbrili · September 14, 2022, 1:33am

maybe you can take look on haikupors and check for mc recipe…
take look this recipe

haikuports/haikuports/blob/4f180bdb94db9749ae800820b271e262a12754aa/dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3_20170509.recipe

SUMMARY="Display TUI widgets for shell scripts"
DESCRIPTION="Dialog is an application used in shell scripts which displays \
text user interface widgets. It uses the curses or ncurses library."
HOMEPAGE="https://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
COPYRIGHT="1999-2014 Thomas E. Dickey"
LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2"
SOURCE_URI="ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog-${portVersion/_/-}.tgz"
CHECKSUM_SHA256="2ff1ba74c632b9d13a0d0d2c942295dd4e8909694eeeded7908a467d0bcd4756"
SOURCE_DIR="dialog-${portVersion/_/-}"
REVISION="2"
PATCHES="dialog-$portVersion.patchset"

ARCHITECTURES="all"
SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"

PROVIDES="
	dialog$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
	lib:libdialog$secondaryArchSuffix = 14.0.0 compat >= 14
	"
if [ -z "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then

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so it you need development package libncurses

MarisaG · September 14, 2022, 2:24am

Hmm, I looked in haikudepot and I don’t see any libs for ncurses/curses. Any idea where I can get it?

mazbrili · September 14, 2022, 2:31am

take look… use include development package - all category

extrowerk · September 14, 2022, 5:05am

Possibly you will also have to adjust it to ncursesw.h in the game source files after installing ncurses6_devel.

MarisaG · September 15, 2022, 12:59am

Yep that did the ticket. Now I can get on with the porting