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

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:16:48 +0800

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On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 02:48:23PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>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.

I think I replied too quickly last week.

Let's back up and see if we can make more sense of things.  How exactly 
have you run the configure command to compile ncurses?  What is 
installed in your ~/sw/include and lib directory for ncurses, and
exactly where?

Mutt will look inside ~/sw first since -I and -L are set.  But it would 
be helpful to know what mutt is seeing in ~/sw so we know what all 
should be there to sufficiently "cover up" your system lib and includes.

Maybe that's some combination of --disable-lib-suffixes and/or 
--enable-overwrite.

Thanks.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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