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PDCurses for X11
This is a port of PDCurses for X11, aka XCurses. It is designed to allow existing curses programs to be re-compiled with PDCurses, resulting in native X11 programs.
Building
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Run "./configure". To build the wide-character version of the library, specify "--enable-widec" as a parameter. To use X Input Methods, add "--enable-xim". I recommend these options, but I haven't yet made them the defaults, for the sake of backwards compatibility.
If your system is lacking in UTF-8 support, you can force the use of UTF-8 instead of the system locale via "--enable-force-utf8".
If configure can't find your X include files or X libraries, you can specify the paths with the arguments "--x-includes=inc_path" and/or "--x-libraries=lib_path".
By default, the library and demo programs are built with the optimizer switch -O2. You can turn this off, and turn on debugging (-g), by adding "--with-debug" to the configure command.
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Run "make". This should build libXCurses and all the demo programs.
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Optionally, run "make install". curses.h and panel.h will be renamed when installed (to xcurses.h and xpanel.h), to avoid conflicts with any existing curses installations. Unrenamed copies of curses.h and panel.h are installed in (by default) /usr/local/include/xcurses.
Distribution Status
As of April 13, 2006, the files in this directory are released to the Public Domain, except for ScrollBox*, which are under essentially the MIT X License; config.guess and config.sub, which are under the GPL; and configure, which is under a free license described within it.
Acknowledgements
X11 port was provided by Mark Hessling mark@rexx.org