Re: [Vala] Vala and Curses

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Check out this:

http://hg.youterm.com/racu

Thats a tiled window managing library for handling simple textual widgets with  ncurses in Vala.

Read the makefiles tonsee how to link against ncurses from vala.

dpkg -L libncurses5-dev 

There's also ncurses<tab>-config program that works like pkg-config to get the cflags and ldflags.

Hope it helps

On 25/04/2011, at 20:23, Lewis Gunsch <lgunsch gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there not a package for Monodepelop already? You should be able to just
> install it using Add/Remove Programs.
>
> As for the make error, you will have to post more details before I can help.
>
> ~Lewis
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Timothy Sassone <timothy s dev gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Hello, my name is Timothy; I recently set up the Gnome version of Linux
> > Mint
> > to dual-boot on my desktop.  I do a fair bit of hobby programming, mostly
> > in
> > C++ or C# up to this point, and I'd like to try Vala.  I've followed the
> > avaliable tutorials, and I'm getting the hang of the differences between it
> > and C# (as well as Java, which the university I'm attending teaches).  I
> > would like to try developing a curses-based (ncurses) application using
> > Vala
> > and MonoDevelop, but I'm having some difficulties in setting it up.
> >
> > I first tried downloading the tar through firefox, unzipped it, and tried
> > to
> > build it using:
> >
> > ./configure
> > make
> >
> > The configure command worked, but I received errors when I tried to make
> > it:
> >
> > make[1]: *** [../objects/cursesf.o] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/-------/Desktop/ncurses-5.9/c++'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > At a later suggestion I found through Google, I tried to apt-get ncurses:
> > sudo apt-get install build-essentials
> > sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
> >
> > But it couldn't seem to find either package.  Unfortunately, my only real
> > experience in programming thus far has been in either NetBeans or Visual
> > Studio, and both on Windows.  Any pointers on how to set up
> > MonoDevelop/Vala
> > to work with curses would be most appreciated!  Ncurses was attempted only
> > because my initial searches for Vala curses bindings/vapi file returned
> > results from this mailing list, in which is mentioned being tested and
> > functional with ncurses.  Any curses variant/branch which works with Vala
> > would be fine.
> >
> > Thank you for your time and effort,
> > Timothy S.
> >
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