Re: mutt on macOS and --with-curses=DIR

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 06:53:57PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> A workaround for now would be to just create a symlink under ~/sw/lib from
> ncurses.so to your ncursesw.so file.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. There are a lot of missing symbols.

      ...
  "_wclear$NCURSES60", referenced from:
      _main in main.o
  "_wgetch$NCURSES60", referenced from:
      _mutt_getch in curs_lib.o
      _mutt_what_key in keymap.o
  "_wrefresh$NCURSES60", referenced from:
      _mutt_refresh in curs_lib.o
      __get_field in curs_lib.o
      _mutt_edit_file in curs_lib.o
      _mutt_endwin in curs_lib.o
      _mutt_yesorno_with_help in curs_lib.o
      _mutt_yesorno_with_help in curs_lib.o
      _mutt_do_pager in curs_lib.o
      ...
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64

It seems that the library in ~/sw/lib is being used, but the header file
for the system-wide library. $NCURSES60 appears only there

#define NCURSES_SUF_ABI60    "$NCURSES60"

and not in ~/sw/include/ncursesw/ncurses.h.

Dennis