[ruby-core:46851] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6735] curses: support linking against pdcurses

Issue #6735 has been updated by ThomasDickey (Thomas dickey).


I cannot account for the developer's failure to compile ncurses, since he's
never provided a bug report.  However, it's trivial to cross-compile, so
perhaps some progress might be made in that area.  I've put a zip-file with
current code here, which I'll update:
    http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/mingw32.zip
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Feature #6735: curses: support linking against pdcurses
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6735#change-28527

Author: luislavena (Luis Lavena)
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: shugo (Shugo Maeda)
Category: ext
Target version: 2.0.0


Hello,

On Windows, ncurses are not available. Instead we link against PDCurses when building RubyInstaller.

Except that we required rename linking library to libcurses so curses extension finds it.

I would like to ask curses extension supports pdcurses linking library.

Attached is a patch that allows linking against unmodified pdcurses linking library.

I would like to port this change also to 1.9.3 in order to standardize building RubyInstaller.

Thank you


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