Configure to work with macOS NCurses?

[iandol]

Hi, ncurses comes with macOS, but to make use of it the naming is slightly different. In homebrew there is a rule that replaces lncursesw with lncurses:

inreplace %w[configure Makefile], "lncursesw", "lncurses"

But it would be better if the configure script could handle this platform detail automatically. Your configure script is a shell script so you could use something like:

PLATFORM=$(uname -s)
if [[ $PLATFORM = 'Darwin' ]]; then
  ...
fi

For the makefile, at least according to stack exchange:

UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s)
ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin)
  LDFLAGS+=-lncurses
else
  LDFLAGS+=-lncursesw
end

I can make a pull request if you want...

[folkertvanheusden]

Would replacing my shell-scripts with cmake help?

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:52 AM Ian Max Andolina ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, ncurses comes with macOS, but to make use of it the naming is slightly different. In homebrew there is a rule that replaces lncursesw with lncurses: inreplace %w[configure Makefile], "lncursesw", "lncurses" But it would be better if the configure script could handle this platform detail automatically. Your configure script is a shell script so you could use something like: PLATFORM=$(uname -s)if [[ $PLATFORM = 'Darwin' ]]; then ...fi For the makefile, at least according to stack exchange: UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s) ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin) LDFLAGS+=-lncurses else LDFLAGS+=-lncursesw end I can make a pull request if you want... — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AUN5IWYRQGUVG2LJR4P6JGLWF47ABANCNFSM6AAAAAARSVZQT4> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[iandol]

Honestly, I'm not a C programmer and thus ignorant of which make tools are considered better. I'm just an end user who knows enough to be dangerous! 🙃

httping seems to compile well enough with your existing shellscript + makefile, and at least from the view of homebrew, as long as upstream (httping in this case) handles issues like this, it is OK. I'm sure cmake is a more elegant tool, but is there really a need for an extra build dependency?

[folkertvanheusden]

It would make it easier (I hope) to build for multiple platforms.

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On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 12:47 AM Ian Max Andolina ***@***.***> wrote: Honestly, I'm not a C programmer and thus ignorant of which make tools are considered better. I'm just an end user who knows enough to be dangerous! 🙃 httping seems to compile well enough with your existing shellscript + makefile, and at least from the view of homebrew, as long as upstream (httping in this case) handles issues like this, it is OK. I'm sure cmake is a more elegant tool, but is there really a need for an extra build dependency? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[iandol]

OK, I'll leave this issue open for the moment, I think we can get V2.9 back in the public repo without needing this to be completed, and a future release using cmake can make future release more robust when building cross-platform...