Ncurses(3X) ncurses(3X) NAME ncurses - CRT screen handling and optimization package SYNOPSIS #include DESCRIPTION The ncurses library routines give the user a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. This implementation is ``new curses' (ncurses) and is the approved replacement for 4.4BSD classic curses, which has been. The “n” in the name comes from the fact that the game was written using the ncurses library. Ncurses provides an API for programmers to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. Once installed, type “ninvaders” to start the game.
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Synopsis
The ncurses test programs are used both for testing/demonstrating features of ncurses, as well as for occasional comparisons with other curses implementations.
Ncurses Mac
History
A configure script was added to the test directory in 1996, to help test-builds with Unix versions. However, the script relied on files such as config.guess which were present in the ncurses tree but not in the test-directory.
Beginning with ncurses 5.8, the ncurses sources include make-tar.sh scripts for the Ada95 and test directories which may be used to generate tarballs of those directories which can build separately from the complete ncurses distribution.
Limitations
These programs work with ncurses, across several releases. For other curses implementations, they generally build properly, but expose differences between ncurses and other implementations.
Ncurses Osx
Platforms
Ncurses Tutorial
In preparing the release of ncurses 5.9, these gcc versions (as well as other compilers such as clang) and systems were used:
| System | CPU | C (gcc) | (n)curses |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIX 5.1 | powerpc | 4.2.4 | system |
| AIX 5.3 | powerpc | 4.2.4 | system |
| Centos 5.5 | x86_64 | 4.1.2 | 5.5.20060715 |
| Cygwin 6.1 | x86_64 | 4.3.4 | 5.7.20091227 |
| Debian 3.1 | i686 | 3.3.5 | 5.4.20040208 |
| Debian 5.0 | i486 | 4.3.2 | 5.7.20081213 |
| Debian 6.0 | i686 | 4.4.5 | 5.7.20100313 |
| Debian 6.0 | x86_64 | 4.4.5 | 5.7.20100313 |
| Fedora 13 | x86_64 | 4.4.5 | 5.7.20100130 |
| Fedora 14 | x86_64 | 4.5.1 | 5.7.20100703 |
| FreeBSD 6.3 | i386 | 4.1.2 | 5.6.20061217 |
| FreeBSD 6.3 | i386 | 4.2.2 | 5.6.20061217 |
| FreeBSD 6.3 | i386 | 4.3.0 | 5.6.20061217 |
| FreeBSD 7.2 | x86_64 | 4.2.1 | 5.6.20080503 |
| FreeBSD 8.1 | x86_64 | 4.4.0 | 5.7.20081102 |
| HPUX 11.00 | hppa2.0w | 4.2.4 | system |
| HPUX 11.23 | hppa2.0w | 4.2.4 | system |
| IRIX64 6.5 | mips | 4.2.4 | system |
| Mac OS X 10.6.7 | x86_64 | 4.2.1 | 5.7.20081102 |
| Mandriva 2010.0 | x86_64 | 4.4.1 | 5.7.20090516 |
| MirBSD 10 | i386 | 3.4.6 | 5.5.20051010 |
| NetBSD 5.1 | x86_64 | 4.1.3 | system |
| OSF/1 5.1 | alpha | 4.2.4 | system |
| OpenBSD 4.1 | i386 | 3.3.5 | 5.2.20010224 |
| OpenSuse 11.0 | x86_64 | 4.3.1 | 5.6.20070128 |
| OpenSuse 11.3 | x86_64 | 4.5.0 | 5.7.20100109 |
| OpenSolaris | x86_64 | 3.4.3 | system |
| Solaris 2.6 | sparc | 4.2.4 | system |
| Solaris 7 | sparc | 4.2.4 | system |
| Solaris 8 | sparc | 4.2.4 | system |
| Solaris 9 | sparc | 4.2.4 | system |
| Solaris 10 | sparc | 4.2.4 | system |
| Ubuntu 10.04 | x86_64 | 4.4.3 | 5.7.20090803 |
| Ubuntu 10.10 | i686 | 4.4.4 | 5.7.20100626 |
Download
These are generated from the main ncurses source tree, with a script make-tar.sh that is run when producing snapshots.
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- current development sources -