Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

Fergus Daly fergusd@frontier-science.co.uk
Tue Mar 17 13:12:00 GMT 2015


> A build script I have used forever containing the line
> 	gcc -o execname ./{various.a} -lncurses
> has failed in a new installation today of Cygwin, with the error message 
> 	ld: cannot find -lncurses
> 	collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

> The installation script to build Cygwin has not altered, taking the form
> 	setup-x86 -P (list of packages}
> unchanged between <old installation, not more than 3 months old> and <new installation, today>

PS Adding ',ncurses' to {list of packages} has made no difference: still getting error message ".. cannot find -lncurses".
Fergus


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