[Vala] Fwd: Vala and Curses

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Timothy Sassone <timothy s dev gmail com>
> Date: 26 d’abril de 2011 4:44:08 GMT+02:00
> To: pancake <pancake youterm com>
> Subject: Re: [Vala] Vala and Curses

> Thanks everyone!  The problems I'm having with the packaged version of curses, as well as the Gee and other 
> packages is more related to my ignorance of Monodevelop than anything else, as I can't figure out how to 
> add the references to the packages to a project/solution.  There is a menu I found through the right-click 
> that seems like it would  let me add such, but it's empty.  Perhaps they have to be stored in a specific 
> place, or I have to add a path somewhere?
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:04 PM, pancake <pancake youterm com> wrote:
> 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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