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-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.135 2008/11/02 21:13:51 tom Exp $
---------------------------------------------------------------------
How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
---------------------------------------------------------------------
************************************************************
* READ ALL OF THIS FILE BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL NCURSES. *
************************************************************
You should be reading the file INSTALL in a directory called ncurses-d.d, where
d.d is the current version number. There should be several subdirectories,
including `c++', `form', `man', `menu', 'misc', `ncurses', `panel', `progs',
and `test'. See the README file for a roadmap to the package.
If you are a Linux or FreeBSD or NetBSD distribution integrator or packager,
please read and act on the section titled IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM INTEGRATOR
below.
If you are converting from BSD curses and do not have root access, be sure
to read the BSD CONVERSION NOTES section below.
If you are trying to build applications using gpm with ncurses,
read the USING NCURSES WITH GPM section below.
If you are running over the Andrew File System see the note below on
USING NCURSES WITH AFS.
If you are cross-compiling, see the note below on BUILDING NCURSES WITH A
CROSS-COMPILER.
If you want to build the Ada95 binding, go to the Ada95 directory and
follow the instructions there. The Ada95 binding is not covered below.
If you are using anything but (a) Linux, or (b) one of the 4.4BSD-based
i386 Unixes, go read the Portability section in the TO-DO file before you
do anything else.
REQUIREMENTS:
------------
You will need the following to build and install ncurses under UNIX:
* ANSI C compiler (gcc, for instance)
* sh (bash will do)
* awk (mawk or gawk will do)
* sed
* BSD or System V style install (a script is enclosed)
Ncurses has been also built in the OS/2 EMX environment.
INSTALLATION PROCEDURE:
----------------------
1. First, decide whether you want ncurses to replace your existing library (in
which case you'll need super-user privileges) or be installed in parallel
with it.
The --prefix option to configure changes the root directory for installing
ncurses. The default is normally in subdirectories of /usr/local, except
for systems where ncurses is normally installed as a system library, e.g.,
Linux, the various BSD systems and Cygwin. Use --prefix=/usr to replace
your default curses distribution.
The package gets installed beneath the --prefix directory as follows:
In $(prefix)/bin: tic, infocmp, captoinfo, tset,
reset, clear, tput, toe
In $(prefix)/lib: libncurses*.* libcurses.a
In $(prefix)/share/terminfo: compiled terminal descriptions
In $(prefix)/include: C header files
Under $(prefix)/man: the manual pages
Note that the configure script attempts to locate previous installation of
ncurses, and will set the default prefix according to where it finds the
ncurses headers.
Do not use commands such as
make install prefix=XXX
to change the prefix after configuration, since the prefix value is used
for some absolute pathnames such as TERMINFO. Instead do this
make install DESTDIR=XXX
See also the discussion of --with-install-prefix.
2. Type `./configure' in the top-level directory of the distribution to
configure ncurses for your operating system and create the Makefiles.
Besides --prefix, various configuration options are available to customize
the installation; use `./configure --help' to list the available options.
If your operating system is not supported, read the PORTABILITY section in
the file ncurses/README for information on how to create a configuration
file for your system.
The `configure' script generates makefile rules for one or more object
models and their associated libraries:
libncurses.a (normal)
libcurses.a (normal, a link to libncurses.a)
This gets left out if you configure with --disable-overwrite.
libncurses.so (shared)
libncurses_g.a (debug)
libncurses_p.a (profile)
libncurses.la (libtool)
If you configure using the --enable-widec option, a "w" is appended to the
library names (e.g., libncursesw.a), and the resulting libraries support
wide-characters, e.g., via a UTF-8 locale. The corresponding header files
are compatible with the non-wide-character configuration; wide-character
features are provided by ifdef's in the header files. The wide-character
library interfaces are not binary-compatible with the non-wide-character
version. Building and running the wide-character code relies on a fairly
recent implementation of libiconv. We have built this configuration on
Linux using libiconv, sometimes requiring libutf8.
If you configure using the --with-pthread option, a "t" is appended to
the library names (e.g., libncursest.a, libncursestw.a).
If you do not specify any models, the normal and debug libraries will be
configured. Typing `configure' with no arguments is equivalent to:
./configure --with-normal --with-debug --enable-overwrite
Typing
./configure --with-shared
makes the shared libraries the default, resulting in
./configure --with-shared --with-normal --with-debug --enable-overwrite
If you want only shared libraries, type
./configure --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug
Rules for generating shared libraries are highly dependent upon the choice
of host system and compiler. We've been testing shared libraries on Linux
and SunOS with gcc, but more work needs to be done to make shared libraries
work on other systems.
If you have libtool installed, you can type
./configure --with-libtool
to generate the appropriate static and/or shared libraries for your
platform using libtool.
You can make curses and terminfo fall back to an existing file of termcap
definitions by configuring with --enable-termcap. If you do this, the
library will search /etc/termcap before the terminfo database, and will
also interpret the contents of the TERM environment variable. See the
section BSD CONVERSION NOTES below.
3. Type `make'. Ignore any warnings, no error messages should be produced.
This should compile the ncurses library, the terminfo compiler tic(1),
captoinfo(1), infocmp(1), toe(1), clear(1) tset(1), reset(1), and tput(1)
programs (see the manual pages for explanation of what they do), some test
programs, and the panels, menus, and forms libraries.
4. Run ncurses and several other test programs in the test directory to
verify that ncurses functions correctly before doing an install that
may overwrite system files. Read the file test/README for details on
the test programs.
NOTE: You must have installed the terminfo database, or set the
environment variable $TERMINFO to point to a SVr4-compatible terminfo
database before running the test programs. Not all vendors' terminfo
databases are SVr4-compatible, but most seem to be. Exceptions include
DEC's Digital Unix (formerly known as OSF/1).
If you run the test programs WITHOUT installing terminfo, ncurses may
read the termcap file and cache that in $HOME/.terminfo, which will
thereafter be used instead of the terminfo database. See the comments
on "--enable-getcap-cache", to see why this is a Bad Thing.
It is possible to configure ncurses to use other terminfo database formats.
A few are provided as examples in the include-directory (see --with-caps).
The ncurses program is designed specifically to test the ncurses library.
You can use it to verify that the screen highlights work correctly, that
cursor addressing and window scrolling works OK, etc.
5. Once you've tested, you can type `make install' to install libraries,
the programs, the terminfo database and the manual pages. Alternately, you
can type `make install' in each directory you want to install. In the
top-level directory, you can do a partial install using these commands:
'make install.progs' installs tic, infocmp, etc...
'make install.includes' installs the headers.
'make install.libs' installs the libraries (and the headers).
'make install.data' installs the terminfo data. (Note: `tic' must
be installed before the terminfo data can be
compiled).
'make install.man' installs the manual pages.
############################################################################
# CAVEAT EMPTOR: `install.data' run as root will NUKE any existing #
# terminfo database. If you have any custom or unusual entries SAVE them #
# before you install ncurses. I have a file called terminfo.custom for #
# this purpose. Don't forget to run tic on the file once you're done. #
############################################################################
The terminfo(5) manual page must be preprocessed with tbl(1) before
being formatted by nroff(1). Modern man(1) implementations tend to do
this by default, but you may want to look at your version's manual page
to be sure. You may also install the manual pages after preprocessing
with tbl(1) by specifying the configure option --with-manpage-tbl.
If the system already has a curses library that you need to keep using
you'll need to distinguish between it and ncurses. See the discussion of
--disable-overwrite. If ncurses is installed outside the standard
directories (/usr/include and /usr/lib) then all your users will need to
use the -I option to compile programs and -L to link them.
If you have another curses installed in your system and you accidentally
compile using its curses.h you'll end up with a large number of
undefined symbols at link time.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ROOT: Change directory to the `progs' subdirectory
and run the `capconvert' script. This script will deduce various things
about your environment and use them to build you a private terminfo tree,
so you can use ncurses applications.
If more than one user at your site does this, the space for the duplicate
trees is wasted. Try to get your site administrators to install a system-
wide terminfo tree instead.
See the BSD CONVERSION NOTES section below for a few more details.
6. The c++ directory has C++ classes that are built on top of ncurses and
panels. You must have c++ (and its libraries) installed before you can
compile and run the demo.
Use --without-cxx-binding to tell configure to not build the C++ bindings
and demo.
If you do not have C++, you must use the --without-cxx option to tell
the configure script to not attempt to determine the type of 'bool'
which may be supported by C++. IF YOU USE THIS OPTION, BE ADVISED THAT
YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COMPILE (OR RUN) NCURSES APPLICATIONS WITH C++.
SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
----------------------------
The configure script provides a short list of its options when you type
./configure --help
The --help and several options are common to all configure scripts that are
generated with autoconf. Those are all listed before the line
--enable and --with options recognized:
The other options are specific to this package. We list them in alphabetic
order.
--disable-assumed-color
With ncurses 5.1, we introduced a new function, assume_default_colors()
which allows applications to specify what the default foreground and
background color are assumed to be. Most color applications use
full-screen color; but a few do not color the background. While the
assumed values can be overridden by invoking assume_default_colors(),
you may find it useful to set the assumed values to the pre-5.1
convention, using this configure option.
--disable-big-core
Assume machine has little memory. The configure script attempts to
determine if your machine has enough memory (about 6Mb) to compile the
terminfo database without writing portions to disk. Some allocators
return deceptive results, so you may have to override the configure
script. Or you may be building tic for a smaller machine.
--disable-big-strings
Disable compile-time optimization of predefined tables which puts
all of their strings into a very long string, to reduce relocation
overhead.
--disable-database
Use only built-in data. The ncurses libraries normally read terminfo
and termcap data from disk. You can configure ncurses to have a
built-in database, aka "fallback" entries. Embedded applications may
have no need for an external database. Some, but not all of the
programs are useful in this configuration, e.g., reset and tput versus
infocmp and tic.
--disable-ext-funcs
Disable function-extensions. Configure ncurses without the functions
that are not specified by XSI. See ncurses/modules for the exact
list of library modules that would be suppressed.
--disable-hashmap
Compile without hashmap scrolling-optimization code. This algorithm is
the default.
--disable-home-terminfo
The $HOME/.terminfo directory is normally added to ncurses' search
list for reading/writing terminfo entries, since that directory is
more likely writable than the system terminfo database. Use this
option to disable the feature altogether.
--disable-largefile
Disable compiler flags needed to use large-file interfaces.
--disable-leaks
For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that normally would not
be freed, to simplify analysis of memory-leaks.
Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with
a screen, since (even after calling endwin()), it must be available
for use in the next call to refresh(). There are also chunks of
memory held for performance reasons. That makes it hard to analyze
curses applications for memory leaks. To work around this, build
a debugging version of the ncurses library which frees those chunks
which it can, and provides the _nc_free_and_exit() function to free
the remainder on exit. The ncurses utility and test programs use this
feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro.
--disable-lp64
The header files will ignore use of the _LP64 symbol to make chtype
and mmask_t types 32 bits (they may be long on 64-bit hosts, for
compatibility with older releases).
NOTE: this is potentially an ABI change, depending on existing
packages. The default for this option is "disabled" for ncurses
ABI 5, and "enabled" for ABI 6.
--disable-macros
For testing, use functions rather than macros. The program will run
more slowly, but it is simpler to debug. This defines NCURSES_NOMACROS
at build time. See also the --enable-expanded option.
--disable-overwrite
If you are installing ncurses on a system which contains another
development version of curses, or which could be confused by the loader
for another version, we recommend that you leave out the link to
-lcurses. The ncurses library is always available as -lncurses.
Disabling overwrite also causes the ncurses header files to be
installed into a subdirectory, e.g., /usr/local/include/ncurses,
rather than the include directory. This makes it simpler to avoid
compile-time conflicts with other versions of curses.h
--disable-relink
If --enable-rpath is given, the generated makefiles normally will
rebuild the libraries during install. Use this option to simply
copy whatever the linked produced.
This option is ignored if --enable-rpath is not given.
--disable-root-environ
Compile with environment restriction, so certain environment variables
are not available when running as root, or via a setuid/setgid
application. These are (for example $TERMINFO) those that allow the
search path for the terminfo or termcap entry to be customized.
--disable-scroll-hints
Compile without scroll-hints code. This option is ignored when
hashmap scrolling is configured, which is the default.
--disable-tic-depends
When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
the --with-termlib option was given). The tic- and term-libraries
ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
by using only one copy of those libraries. To make this work properly,
the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
ncurses (or ncursesw) library. Use this configure option to do that.
For example
configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends
--disable-tparm-varargs
Portable programs should call tparm() using the fixed-length parameter
list documented in X/Open. ncurses provides varargs support for this
function. Use --disable-tparm-varargs to disable this support.
--enable-assertions
For testing, compile-in assertion code. This is used only for a few
places where ncurses cannot easily recover by returning an error code.
--enable-broken_linker
A few platforms have what we consider a broken linker: it cannot link
objects from an archive solely by referring to data objects in those
files, but requires a function reference. This configure option
changes several data references to functions to work around this
problem.
NOTE: With ncurses 5.1, this may not be necessary, since we are
told that some linkers interpret uninitialized global data as a
different type of reference which behaves as described above. We have
explicitly initialized all of the global data to work around the
problem.
--enable-bsdpad
Recognize BSD-style prefix padding. Some ancient BSD programs (such as
nethack) call tputs("50") to implement delays.
--enable-colorfgbg
Compile with experimental $COLORFGBG code. That environment variable
is set by some terminal emulators as a hint to applications, by
advertising the default foreground and background colors. During
initialization, ncurses sets color pair 0 to match this.
--enable-const
The curses interface as documented in XSI is rather old, in fact
including features that precede ANSI C. The prototypes generally do
not make effective use of "const". When using stricter compilers (or
gcc with appropriate warnings), you may see warnings about the mismatch
between const and non-const data. We provide a configure option which
changes the interfaces to use const - quieting these warnings and
reflecting the actual use of the parameters more closely. The ncurses
library uses the symbol NCURSES_CONST for these instances of const,
and if you have asked for compiler warnings, will add gcc's const-qual
warning. There will still be warnings due to subtle inconsistencies
in the interface, but at a lower level.
NOTE: configuring ncurses with this option may detract from the
portability of your applications by encouraging you to use const in
places where the XSI curses interface would not allow them. Similar
issues arise when porting to SVr4 curses, which uses const in even
fewer places.
--enable-echo
Use the option --disable-echo to make the build-log less verbose by
suppressing the display of the compile and link commands. This makes
it easier to see the compiler warnings. (You can always use "make -n"
to see the options that are used).
--enable-expanded
For testing, generate functions for certain macros to make them visible
as such to the debugger. See also the --disable-macros option.
--enable-ext-colors
Extend the cchar_t structure to allow more than 16 colors to be
encoded. This applies only to the wide-character (--enable-widec)
configuration.
NOTE: using this option will make libraries which are not binary-
compatible with libncursesw 5.4. None of the interfaces change, but
applications which have an array of cchar_t's must be recompiled.
--enable-ext-mouse
Modify the encoding of mouse state to make room for a 5th mouse button.
That allows one to use ncurses with a wheel mouse with xterm or
similar X terminal emulators.
NOTE: using this option will make libraries which are not binary-
compatible with libncursesw 5.4. None of the interfaces change, but
applications which have mouse mask mmask_t's must be recompiled.
--enable-getcap
Use the 4.4BSD getcap code if available, or a bundled version of it to
fetch termcap entries. Entries read in this way cannot use (make
cross-references to) the terminfo tree, but it is faster than reading
/etc/termcap.
If configured for one of the *BSD systems, this automatically uses
the hashed database system produced using cap_mkdb or similar tools.
In that case, there is no advantage in using the --enable-getcap-cache
option.
See also the --with-hashed-db option.
--enable-getcap-cache
Cache translated termcaps under the directory $HOME/.terminfo
NOTE: this sounds good - it makes ncurses run faster the second time.
But look where the data comes from - an /etc/termcap containing lots of
entries that are not up to date. If you configure with this option and
forget to install the terminfo database before running an ncurses
application, you will end up with a hidden terminfo database that
generally does not support color and will miss some function keys.
--enable-hard-tabs
Compile-in cursor-optimization code that uses hard-tabs. We would make
this a standard feature except for the concern that the terminfo entry
may not be accurate, or that your stty settings have disabled the use
of tabs.
--enable-mixed-case
Controls whether the filesystem on which the terminfo database resides
supports mixed-case filenames (normal for UNIX, but not on other
systems). If you do not specify this option, the configure script
checks the current filesystem.
--enable-no-padding
Compile-in support for the $NCURSES_NO_PADDING environment variable,
which allows you to suppress the effect of non-mandatory padding in
terminfo entries. This is the default, unless you have disabled the
extended functions.
--enable-reentrant
Compile experimental configuration which improves reentrant use of the
library by reducing global and static variables. This option is also
set if --with-pthread is used.
--enable-rpath
Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs. This originally
(in 1997) applied mainly to systems using the GNU linker (read the
manpage).
More recently it is useful for systems that require special treatment
shared libraries in "unusual" locations. The "system" libraries reside
in directories which are on the loader's default search-path. While
you may be able to use workarounds such as the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable, they do not work with setuid applications since
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable would be unset in that situation.
This option does not apply to --with-libtool, since libtool makes
extra assumptions about rpath.
--enable-safe-sprintf
Compile with experimental safe-sprintf code. You may consider using
this if you are building ncurses for a system that has neither
vsnprintf() or vsprintf(). It is slow, however.
--enable-sigwinch
Compile support for ncurses' SIGWINCH handler. If your application has
its own SIGWINCH handler, ncurses will not use its own. The ncurses
handler causes wgetch() to return KEY_RESIZE when the screen-size
changes. This option is the default, unless you have disabled the
extended functions.
--enable-signed-char
The term.h header declares a Booleans[] array typed "char". But it
stores signed values there and "char" is not necessarily signed.
Some packagers choose to alter the type of Booleans[] though this
is not strictly compatible. This option allows one to implement this
alteration without patching the source code.
--enable-symlinks
If your system supports symbolic links, make tic use symbolic links
rather than hard links to save diskspace when writing aliases in the
terminfo database.
--enable-tcap-names
Compile-in support for user-definable terminal capabilities. Use the
-x option of tic and infocmp to treat unrecognized terminal
capabilities as user-defined strings. This option is the default,
unless you have disabled the extended functions.
--enable-termcap
Compile in support for reading terminal descriptions from termcap if no
match is found in the terminfo database. See also the --enable-getcap
and --enable-getcap-cache options.
--enable-warnings
Turn on GCC compiler warnings. There should be only a few.
--enable-weak-symbols
If the --with-pthread option is set, check if the compiler supports
weak-symbols. If it does, then name the thread-capable library without
the "t" (libncurses rather than libncursest), and provide for
dynamically loading the pthreads entrypoints at runtime. This allows
one to reduce the number of library files for ncurses.
--enable-wgetch-events
Compile with experimental wgetch-events code. See ncurses/README.IZ
--enable-widec
Compile with wide-character code. This makes a different version of
the libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so), which stores characters as
wide-characters,
NOTE: applications compiled with this configuration are not compatible
with those built for 8-bit characters. You cannot simply make a
symbolic link to equate libncurses.so with libncursesw.so
NOTE: the Ada95 binding may be built against either version of the the
ncurses library, but you must decide which: the binding installs the
same set of files for either version. Currently (2002/6/22) it does
not use the extended features from the wide-character code, so it is
probably better to not install the binding for that configuration.
--enable-xmc-glitch
Compile-in support experimental xmc (magic cookie) code.
--with-abi-version=NUM
Override the ABI version, which is used in shared library filenames.
Normally this is the same as the release version; some ports have
special requirements for compatibility.
This option does not affect linking with libtool, which uses the
release major/minor numbers.
--with-ada-compiler=CMD
Specify the Ada95 compiler command (default "gnatmake")
--with-ada-include=DIR
Tell where to install the Ada includes (default:
PREFIX/lib/ada/adainclude)
--with-ada-objects=DIR
Tell where to install the Ada objects (default: PREFIX/lib/ada/adalib)
--with-bool=TYPE
If --without-cxx is specified, override the type used for the "bool"
declared in curses.h (normally the type is automatically chosen to
correspond with that in <stdbool.h>, or defaults to platform-specific
sizes).
--with-build-cc=XXX
If cross-compiling, specify a host C compiler, which is needed to
compile a few utilities which generate source modules for ncurses.
If you do not give this option, the configure script checks if the
$BUILD_CC variable is set, and otherwise defaults to gcc or cc.
--with-build-cflags=XXX
If cross-compiling, specify the host C compiler-flags. You might need
to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse the
host compiler.
You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_CFLAGS rather than
use this option.
--with-build-cppflags=XXX
If cross-compiling, specify the host C preprocessor-flags. You might
need to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse
the host compiler.
You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_CPPFLAGS rather than
use this option.
--with-build-ldflags=XXX
If cross-compiling, specify the host linker-flags. You might need to
do this if the target linker has unusual flags which confuse the host
compiler.
You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_LDFLAGS rather than
use this option.
--with-build-libs=XXX
If cross-compiling, the host libraries. You might need to do this if
the target environment requires unusual libraries.
You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_LIBS rather than
use this option.
--with-caps=XXX
Specify an alternate terminfo capabilities file, which makes the
configure script look for "include/Caps.XXX". A few systems, e.g.,
AIX 4.x use the same overall file-format as ncurses for terminfo
data, but use different alignments within the tables to support
legacy applications. For those systems, you can configure ncurses
to use a terminfo database which is compatible with the native
applications.
--with-chtype=TYPE
Override type of chtype, which stores the video attributes and (if
--enable-widec is not given) a character. Prior to ncurses 5.5, this
was always unsigned long, but with ncurses 5.5, it may be unsigned.
Use this option if you need to preserve compatibility with 64-bit
executables.
--with-database=XXX
Specify the terminfo source file to install. Usually you will wish
to install ncurses' default (misc/terminfo.src). Certain systems
have special requirements, e.g, OS/2 EMX has a customized terminfo
source file.
--with-dbmalloc
For testing, compile and link with Conor Cahill's dbmalloc library.
This also sets the --disable-leaks option.
--with-debug
Generate debug-libraries (default). These are named by adding "_g"
to the root, e.g., libncurses_g.a
--with-default-terminfo-dir=XXX
Specify the default terminfo database directory. This is normally
DATADIR/terminfo, e.g., /usr/share/terminfo.
--with-dmalloc
For testing, compile and link with Gray Watson's dmalloc library.
This also sets the --disable-leaks option.
--with-fallbacks=XXX
Specify a list of fallback terminal descriptions which will be
compiled into the ncurses library. See CONFIGURING FALLBACK ENTRIES.
--with-gpm
use Alessandro Rubini's GPM library to provide mouse support on the
Linux console. Prior to ncurses 5.5, this introduced a dependency on
the GPM library.
Currently ncurses uses the dlsym() function to bind to the library at
runtime, so it is only necessary that the library be present when
ncurses is built, to obtain the filename (or soname) used in the
corresponding dlopen() call. If you give a value for this option,
e.g.,
--with-gpm=$HOME/tmp/test-gpm.so
that overrides the configure check for the soname.
See also --without-dlsym
--with-hashed-db[=XXX]
Use a hashed database for storing terminfo data rather than storing
each compiled entry in a separate binary file within a directory
tree.
In particular, this uses the Berkeley database 1.8.5 interface, as
provided by that and its successors db 2, 3, and 4. The actual
interface is slightly different in the successor versions of the
Berkeley database. The database should have been configured using
"--enable-compat185".
If you use this option for configuring ncurses, tic will only be able
to write entries in the hashed database. infocmp can still read
entries from a directory tree as well as reading entries from the
hashed database. To do this, infocmp determines whether the $TERMINFO
variable points to a directory or a file, and reads the directory-tree
or hashed database respectively.
You cannot have a directory containing both hashed-database and
filesystem-based terminfo entries.
Use the parameter value to give the install-prefix used for the
datbase, e.g.,
--with-hashed-db=/usr/local/BigBase
to find the corresponding include- and lib-directories under the
given directory.
See also the --enable-getcap option.
--with-install-prefix=XXX
Allows you to specify an alternate location for installing ncurses
after building it. The value you specify is prepended to the "real"
install location. This simplifies making binary packages. The
makefile variable DESTDIR is set by this option. It is also possible
to use
make install DESTDIR=XXX
since the makefiles pass that variable to subordinate makes.
NOTE: a few systems build shared libraries with fixed pathnames; this
option probably will not work for those configurations.
--with-libtool[=XXX]
Generate libraries with libtool. If this option is selected, then it
overrides all other library model specifications. Note that libtool
must already be installed, uses makefile rules dependent on GNU make,
and does not promise to follow the version numbering convention of
other shared libraries on your system. However, if the --with-shared
option does not succeed, you may get better results with this option.
If a parameter value is given, it must be the full pathname of the
particular version of libtool, e.g.,
/usr/bin/libtool-1.2.3
It is possible to rebuild the configure script to use the automake
macros for libtool, e.g., AC_PROG_LIBTOOL. See the comments in
aclocal.m4 for CF_PROG_LIBTOOL, and ensure that you build configure
using the appropriate patch for autoconf from
http://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
--with-manpage-aliases
Tell the configure script you wish to create entries in the
man-directory for aliases to manpages which list them, e.g., the
functions in the panel manpage. This is the default. You can disable
it if your man program does this. You can also disable
--with-manpage-symlinks to install files containing a ".so" command
rather than symbolic links.
--with-manpage-format=XXX
Tell the configure script how you would like to install man-pages. The
option value must be one of these: gzip, compress, BSDI, normal,
formatted. If you do not give this option, the configure script
attempts to determine which is the case.
--with-manpage-renames=XXX
Tell the configure script that you wish to rename the manpages while
installing. Currently the only distribution which does this is
the Linux Debian. The option value specifies the name of a file
that lists the renamed files, e.g., $srcdir/man/man_db.renames
--with-manpage-symlinks
Tell the configure script that you wish to make symbolic links in the
man-directory for aliases to the man-pages. This is the default, but
can be disabled for systems that provide this automatically. Doing
this on systems that do not support symbolic links will result in
copying the man-page for each alias.
--with-manpage-tbl
Tell the configure script that you with to preprocess the manpages
by running them through tbl to generate tables understandable by
nroff.
--with-mmask-t=TYPE
Override type of mmask_t, which stores the mouse mask. Prior to
ncurses 5.5, this was always unsigned long, but with ncurses 5.5, it
may be unsigned. Use this option if you need to preserve compatibility
with 64-bit executables.
--with-normal
Generate normal (i.e., static) libraries (default).
Note: on Linux, the configure script will attempt to use the GPM
library via the dlsym() function call. Use --without-dlsym to disable
this feature, or --without-gpm, depending on whether you wish to use
GPM.
--with-ospeed=TYPE
Override type of ospeed variable, which is part of the termcap
compatibility interface. In termcap, this is a 'short', which works
for a wide range of baudrates because ospeed is not the actual speed
but the encoded value, e.g., B9600 would be a small number such as 13.
However the encoding scheme originally allowed for values "only" up to
38400bd. A newer set of definitions past 38400bd is not encoded as
compactly, and is not guaranteed to fit into a short (see the function
cfgetospeed(), which returns a speed_t for this reason). In practice,
applications that required knowledge of the ospeed variable, i.e.,
those using termcap, do not use the higher speeds. Your application
(or system, in general) may or may not.
--with-profile
Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
e.g., libncurses_p.a
--with-pthread
Link with POSIX threads, set --enable-reentrant. The use_window() and
use_screen() functions will use mutex's, allowing rudimentary support
for multithreaded applications.
--with-rcs-ids
Compile-in RCS identifiers. Most of the C files have an identifier.
--with-rel-version=NUM
Override the release version, which may be used in shared library
filenames. This consists of a major and minor version number separated
by ".". Normally the major version number is the same as the ABI
version; some ports have special requirements for compatibility.
--with-shared
Generate shared-libraries. The names given depend on the system for
which you are building, typically using a ".so" suffix, along with
symbolic links that refer to the release version.
NOTE: Unless you override the configure script by setting the $CFLAGS
environment variable, these will not be built with the -g debugging
option.
NOTE: For some configurations, e.g., installing a new version of
ncurses shared libraries on a machine which already has ncurses
shared libraries, you may encounter problems with the linker.
For example, it may prevent you from running the build tree's
copy of tic (for installing the terminfo database) because it
loads the system's copy of the ncurses shared libraries. In that
case, using the misc/shlib script may be helpful, since it sets
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the build tree, e.g.,
./misc/shlib make install
--with-shlib-version=XXX
Specify whether to use the release or ABI version for shared libraries.
This is normally chosen automatically based on the type of system
which you are building on. We use it for testing the configure script.
--with-sysmouse
use FreeBSD sysmouse interface provide mouse support on the console.
--with-system-type=XXX
For testing, override the derived host system-type which is used to
decide things such as the linker commands used to build shared
libraries. This is normally chosen automatically based on the type of
system which you are building on. We use it for testing the configure
script.
--with-terminfo-dirs=XXX
Specify a search-list of terminfo directories which will be compiled
into the ncurses library (default: DATADIR/terminfo)
--with-termlib[=XXX]
When building the ncurses library, organize this as two parts: the
curses library (libncurses) and the low-level terminfo library
(libtinfo). This is done to accommodate applications that use only
the latter. The terminfo library is about half the size of the total.
If an option value is given, that overrides the name of the terminfo
library. For instance, if the wide-character version is built, the
terminfo library would be named libtinfow. But the libtinfow interface
is upward compatible from libtinfo, so it would be possible to overlay
libtinfo.so with a "wide" version of libtinfow.so by renaming it with
this option.
--with-termpath=XXX
Specify a search-list of termcap files which will be compiled into the
ncurses library (default: /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap)
--with-ticlib[=XXX]
When building the ncurses library, build a separate library for
the modules that are used only by the utility programs. Normally
those would be bundled with the termlib or ncurses libraries.
If an option value is given, that overrides the name of the tic
library. As in termlib, there is no ABI difference between the
"wide" libticw.so and libtic.so
NOTE: Overriding the name of the tic library may be useful if you are
also using the --with-termlib option to rename libtinfo. If you are
not doing that, renaming the tic library can result in conflicting
library dependencies for tic and other programs built with the tic
library.
--with-trace
Configure the trace() function as part of the all models of the ncurses
library. Normally it is part of the debug (libncurses_g) library only.
--with-valgrind
For testing, compile with debug option.
This also sets the --disable-leaks option.
--without-ada
Suppress the configure script's check for Ada95, do not build the
Ada95 binding and related demo.
--without-curses-h
Don't install the ncurses header with the name "curses.h". Rather,
install as "ncurses.h" and modify the installed headers and manpages
accordingly.
--without-cxx
XSI curses declares "bool" as part of the interface. C++ also declares
"bool". Neither specifies the size and type of booleans, but both
insist on the same name. We chose to accommodate this by making the
configure script check for the size and type (e.g., unsigned or signed)
that your C++ compiler uses for booleans. If you do not wish to use
ncurses with C++, use this option to tell the configure script to not
adjust ncurses bool to match C++.
--without-cxx-binding
Suppress the configure script's check for C++, do not build the
C++ binding and related demo.
--without-develop
Disable development options. This does not include those that change
the interface, such as --enable-widec.
--without-dlsym
Do not use dlsym() to load GPM dynamically.
--without-progs
Tell the configure script to suppress the build of ncurses' application
programs (e.g., tic). The test applications will still be built if you
type "make", though not if you simply do "make install".
--without-xterm-new
Tell the configure script to use "xterm-old" for the entry used in
the terminfo database. This will work with variations such as
X11R5 and X11R6 xterm.
COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS OF NCURSES:
--------------------------------------------
Because ncurses implements the X/Open Curses Specification, its interface
is fairly stable. That does not mean the interface does not change.
Changes are made to the documented interfaces when we find differences
between ncurses and X/Open or implementations which they certify (such as
Solaris). We add extensions to those interfaces to solve problems not
addressed by the original curses design, but those must not conflict with
the X/Open documentation.
Here are some of the major interface changes, and related problems which