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nanxiao

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Registered: 2017-07-27

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[Solved]Is ncurses static library provided out-of-box?

Hi all,

The ncurses only provides dynamic library. So if I want to use static library, I should download code and build it myself.

Is there any substitute method? Thanks!

Best Regards
Nan Xiao

Last edited by nanxiao (2017-07-28 13:55:50)

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved]Is ncurses static library provided out-of-box?

So if I want to use static library, I should download code and build it myself.

Yes. Arch dropped staticlibs a long time ago, except for a handful of packages where dropping them caused problems. You can use ABS (asp) to rebuild ncurses with the staticlibs option (see 'man PKGBUILD'), but do you really need to use static libraries?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System

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Re: [Solved]Is ncurses static library provided out-of-box?

Combining nanxiao previous thread (which i happened to read first ) and the stackoverflow topic this seems an xy problem.

nanxiao wants to build bpftrace and that expects a static curses library .

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nanxiao

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Re: [Solved]Is ncurses static library provided out-of-box?

@WorMzy @Lone_Wolf:

Got it! Thanks for your comments!