Re: Anyone succeeded to install the Curses module for Perl? - YES!

[falbu@amnesty.org]

Hello!
It seems that I just managed to install the Curses module for Perl!!!

What I did: (I will skip the unsuccessful steps and the 4 letter words 
;-))
I downloaded the stable perl sources (www.perl.org)
I re-installed perl (At this moment I don't really know if this had any 
influence 
at all on the Curses installation) but I was after a long number of other 
unsuccessful retries.
By the way, there are two ways to install it: One where it asks you step 
by step 
a dozen questions, suggesting a default answer for each. I tried this 
first, going 
with the default each time, and ...it didn't worked ;-^ 
The second one is less interactive, actually it doesn't asks you anything. 

But it worked!!!

After that I unpacked the curses archive ( let's say in a folder called 
Curses).
I used the Curses/hints/c-none.h, copied as Curses/c-config.h and modified 
slightly:
----------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------
/* Change <curses.h> below to the proper "include" file for curses. */
#include <curses.h>

/* Change each #undef below to #define if the answer to the question
 * beside it is "yes".
 */
#define  C_LONGNAME             /* Does longname() exist?               */
#define  C_LONG0ARGS    /* Does longname() take 0 arguments?    */
#undef   C_LONG2ARGS    /* Does longname() take 2 arguments?    */

#define  C_TOUCHLINE    /* Does touchline() exist?              */
#define  C_TOUCH3ARGS   /* Does touchline() take 3 arguments?   */
#undef   C_TOUCH4ARGS   /* Does touchline() take 4 arguments?   */

/* Some Curses include files have problems interacting with perl,
 * some are missing basic functionality, and some just plain do
 * weird things.  Unfortunately, there's no way to anticipate all
 * of the problems the curses include file + "perl.h" might create.
 *
 * If you find that you can't compile Curses.c because of these
 * conflicts, you should insert C code before and after the "include"
 * file above to try and fix the problems.  "See c-sunos.sysv.h"
 * for an example
----------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------


After that I modified Makefile.PL for the $inc and $lib : (it is at the 
top 
of the file, and these are the only lines that needs to be modified)

----------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------
my $inc='';
my $libs='-lcurses -ltermcap';
----------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------

After that: 
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install

and it worked!

However, If you run the demo program or the test, or you write a small 
perl script by yourself, you will notice that there are some strange 
things
happening, like the border of a window doesn't have the top line and you 
cannot change the background colour of a window. Or at least in my case.
If you can sort this out, tell me as it was the factor that made me stop 
using 
Curses module ;-((

Hope it helps,
Florentin Albu

Client-Server Systems Manager
falbu@amnesty.org
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                      Amnesty International, International Secretariat
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Be Realistic! Plan for a Miracle!





"Ryan Erwin" <ryan@dbedge.com>
02/03/2000 21:41
Please respond to "Ryan Erwin"

 
        To:     <falbu@amnesty.org>
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: Anyone succeeded to install the Curses module for Perl?

Misery loves company...
I have had many problems installing many different perl modules...
I think many of the problems are caused by the fact that openbsd's perl
doesn't include /usr/local/lib in the default libs path...
If you manage to get:
curses
Tk
ImageMagick
perl modules installed, let me know ;-)

Thanks, and Good Luck to You-
Ryan Erwin
----- Original Message -----
From: <falbu@amnesty.org>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 1:54 PM
Subject: Anyone succeeded to install the Curses module for Perl?


> Hello!
>
> I have OpenBSD current, I also compiled perl stable. However, I still
> cannot compile the Curses module.
> I have noticed a similar message in the archives, however there was no
> response (see the following link).
>
http://www.sigmasoft.com/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/openbsd-misc/200001/msg00228.
html
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
>
> Florentin Albu
>
> Client-Server Systems Manager
> falbu@amnesty.org
> _________________________________________________________
>                       Amnesty International, International Secretariat
>                                 visit us at   http://www.amnesty.org
>
> Be Realistic! Plan for a Miracle!
>
>
>