Re: error to compile and run ncurses program.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Nimish wrote:

> I m new programmer in ncurses. I want to make program for graphics designing
> in c++ in linux, someone suggested me for ncurses but i face some problem to
> make program on it.
>
> I m using suse 10.1 and install packages => ncurses,
> ncurses-devel,yast2-ncurses.
>
> I make a simple program below :-
>
> ===============gr1.cc==========================

The ".cc" implies that it is C++ (which may use "g++").

gcc may compile this, but it is nonstandard behavior (you should not rely 
on that).

> address@hidden:~/cpp_programs> gcc gr1.cc libncurses.a
> gcc: libncurses.a: No such file or directory

Try
        g++ -o gr1 gr1.cc -lncurses

or (see note)
        gcc -o gr1 gr1.cc -lncurses

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