ncurses

[Frank Heckenbach]

willett wrote:

> I'm trying to use ncurses and seem to be missing something dumb.
> I only want to use ncurses, not the CRT unit.  My program is:
> 
> program testnc(input,output);
> begin
>    writeln('begin test ncurses, before call to initscr');
> 
>    initscr;
>    writeln('after initscr');
>    endwin;
> 
>    writeln('after endwin');
> end.
> 
> 
> When I compile the program, using:
> 
>       gpc testnc.pas -lncurses -o testnc
> 
> I get compilation errors:
> 
> testnc.pas: In main program:
> testnc.pas:10: error: undeclared identifier `initscr' (first use in 
> this routine)
> testnc.pas:12: error: undeclared identifier `endwin' (first use in this 
> routine)
> 
> 
> I tried uses GPC; (no change) and
>             uses ncurses; (error: module/unit interface `ncurses' could 
> not be imported)
> 
> What am I missing?

There is no Pascal (GPC) translation of the ncurses interface AFAIK.
You can write one yourself which is a bit of work. Or use the CRT
unit instead ... ;-)

Frank

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