[Mingw-users] Missing: libtermcap, libterminfo, libcurses, libncurses, libtermlib

[Paul T. <pau...@wa...>]

In an attempt to build octave-2.1.57 under msys/mingw, I find all the =
above and their include files are missing.  The supplied version of =
readline is also not sufficiently up to date.

I tried to start at the difficult end by building readline-5.0 and =
ncurses ( yes, I had seen previous correspondence both here and =
elsewhere - it is usually worth trying again because developers respind =
to these problems!).  Both bombed out; mainly for lack of sgtty.h and =
ioctl.h

PDcurses satisfies the need for libcurses and libterminfo but not for =
libncurses.

Can somebody who has been down this road already please point out where =
to obtain these libraries or how to kluge up others?

Thanks

Paul T