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Re: Issues while building ncurses 6.2 using Visual Studio
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Issues while building ncurses 6.2 using Visual Studio |
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Thu, 27 Feb 2020 04:40:39 -0500 |
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 08:28:16PM +0100, Anonymous Maarten wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 03:04, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:47:54AM +0100, Maarten Anonymous wrote:
> > > I had to apply some patches to let MSVC build it.
> > thanks - will take a look.
> I have pushed a new version with some comments about what errors they fix.
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> > but as noted, I don't accept pull-requests.
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> That's fine for me.
> As long as you're willing to fix the errors they address.
It's not a huge change. It would help to know how you've set up the
build-environment (e.g., cygwin or mingw with some given version of
Visual Studio, etc.), to save time.
> Another nuissance is that at install time, ncurses install libncurses.a
> libraries,\
> whereas Visual Studio expects ncurses.lib libraries (no prefix and other
> suffix).
> This can be fixed by a rename though.
there's some special-case used for some platforms, which can be adapted...
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