Re: [Samtools-help] when installing 1.31. on Centos (redhat) linux I get bam_tview_curses.c:46:5: error: unknown type name ‘WINDOW', no obvious reason

[John M. <jm...@sa...>]

On 3 May 2016, at 19:11, Dan Hyatt <dh...@ds...> wrote:
> 
>  I am installing samtools 1-3-1, the newest version released last week 
> and trying to compile it on Centos (redhat) 6.7
[...]
> 
> I checked and verified that I installed ncurses and devel-ncurses as 
> seen at the bottom.
> 
> google did not indicate any known errors of the first ban_tview_curses 
> error..the other errrors indicated no ncurses devel-ncurses libraries 
> but they are installed.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -I. -Ihtslib-1.3.1  -c -o bam_tview.o bam_tview.c
> gcc -g -O2 -I. -Ihtslib-1.3.1  -c -o bam_tview_curses.o bam_tview_curses.c
> bam_tview_curses.c:46:5: error: unknown type name ‘WINDOW’

Well, that's impressive -- you Centos folks come up with the best curses-related problems :-)

Suggestion for a first step would be to show us the config.h that was produced when you ran configure, and to add -H to the bam_tview_curses.c compile command and show us the output:

	gcc -H -g -O2 -I. -Ihtslib-1.3.1  -c -o bam_tview_curses.o bam_tview_curses.c

(Feel free to just email those to me if it seems too voluminous and boring for the list.)

    John

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