#132 Configure failure on Cygwin - ncurses.h not found...
I am trying to install Cscope 15.5 for use with ViM 6.2 on
a Cygwin installation running on Windows XP. The
configure script fails to find ncurses.h (lines 3705 and
3737), and sure enough, a recursive search for
ncurses.h under the C:\cygwin directory finds no such
file, either. (Make fails also since ncurses.h can't be
found for inclusion during compilation.)
Oddly, though, ncurses *is* installed. If I run
cygcheck -c, I get back that ncurses 5.3-4 is installed
with an 'OK' status. Possibly related, I also
have libncurses5 (5.2-1), libncurses6 (5.2-8), and
libncurses7 (5.3-4) installed, also with an 'OK' status.
Is there anything I'm missing? Some other package,
perhaps? Suggestions will be appreciated -- I am not a
UNIX systems programmer, but I am motivated to get
Cscope working since I've inherited a large project in C
and I need to "digest" it quickly.
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More info: I searched through the "Setup Package Search"
feature at www.cygwin.com and found that ncurses.h was
last a part of the ncurses package at release 5.2-8. It is not
present in version 5.3-4. Unfortunately, it is not readily
apparent to me how to backtrack to release 5.2-8. It is not
available as a "previous" option in the Cygwin setup program.
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I received an e-mail from another sourceforge user advising
me to install the libncurses-devel-5.3-4.tar.bz2 library.
(Apparently ncurses was split into executables and dev libs at
some point.) After installing the library, configure and make
were both successful. I now have Cscope 15.5 working.