Re: Newbie link problem: Error 1

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Is there a *simple* way to test whether ncurses is installed and
> > working *correctly*?
>
> perhaps you have only the runtime (dll's) installed, and not
> libncurses-devel (which would have the import-libraries and header
> files).
>
> The latter has for instance /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h, and
> /usr/lib/libncurses.a

I take it that the runtime libraries are not sufficient, that the
sources must be linked directly during make?  Or should it be able to
use the runtime library somehow?

-- Jeff