From: Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@...>
Date: 2002-05-02T02:27:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ncurses, mingw32

At Thu, 2 May 2002 01:29:58 +0900,
> > I'm not so familiar to mingw32.
> > Is a ncurses library/DLL available for mingw32-gcc?
> 
> yes, it's called pdcurses, but it's a port of ncurses for windows. 
> the header file is 'curses.h' i can't recall what the lib filename is 
> offhand.

I successfully built using mingw32 version of gcc and ruby-1.6.7.
After downloading pdc24_ming_w32.zip, I copied each file like this:

  curses.h   -> c:/mingw/usr/local/include/curses.h
  pdcurses.a -> c:/mingw/usr/local/lib/libcurses.a
  (*) c:/mingw/usr/local is a location I usually use for mingw32 binraries.

I then ran extconf.rb in ruby-1.6.7/ext/curses with the option
--with-curses-dir=c:/mingw/usr/local.

  cd ruby-1.6.7/ext/curses
  ruby extconf.rb --with-curses-dir=c:/mingw/usr/local
  make
  make install
-- 
Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@kt.jaist.ac.jp>