libncurses.a

[mabrown]

Hi everyone.

I want to compile a programming language called 'Euphoria' using the native SDK for pdaXrom RC3. I need libncurses.a which does not appear to be included with RC3 or the RC3 SDK. I am compiling on C860.

I have tried compiling ncurses on the C860 from the Debian ARM source but received errors.

Does anyone have ncurses compiled for ARM? Any advice / suggestions appreciated.

Mark Brown

[pmf]

I need libncurses.a which does not appear to be included with RC3 or the RC3 SDK

Why do you need to link statically?

Try adjusting your Makefile(s) and replace instances of

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libncurses.a with

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-L/opt/arm/3.3.2/armv5tel-cacko-linux/lib/ -lncurses?

If this does not work, I can mail you the libncurses.a from the older SDK I have installed (408kb).

[mabrown]

Hi Pmf.

Thanks for your help.

Your suggestion to get it from the old SDK made me realise that I could extract it from the .deb package I downloaded.

Everything is compiled now and I have the Euphoria interpreter running on my C860.

The Euphoria source uses a script to compille. It didn't come with a makefile. I'm still fumbling my way through the Linux world and thought it best to go with what was there.

I've so far run a number of the Euphoria demo programs including the 'ed" console text editor. Seems quite snappy.

I had to #ifdef out all the references to gpm. I gather gpm has to do with console mouse tracking?

Do you have any suggestions as to how I might implement these gpm functions?

Many thanks,

Mark

[pmf]

I had to #ifdef out all the references to gpm. I gather gpm has to do with console mouse tracking?

Do you have any suggestions as to how I might implement these gpm functions?

GPM is only necessary if you run a program in the bare-bones linux-console; if you run programs in a terminal emulator under X (aterm, xterm), mouse functionality should be handled by ncurses-functions (see ncurses.h).

If the program uses for example 'getmouse()' somewhere, it probably utilizes the mouse via ncurses.

I compiled w3m, which also uses ncurses, and the mouse works as expected.

I don't know it GPM supports the touchscreen-driver (without X) at all.