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Created At: 2026-04-05 01:20:16 AM

Intro

A way of building and installing Ncurses without breaking your system thanks to chat-GPT :P

Installation

(If you want you can download any other specific version of Ncurses source-code from here)

  1. Ensure those packages are installed
sudo pacman -S base-devel wget
  1. Download&Extract Ncurses
wget https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/current/ncurses.tar.gz
tar -xzf ncurses.tar.gz
cd ncurses-*
  1. Pick a directory you can delete later
mkdir -p $HOME/opt/ncurses-test
  1. Configure Ncurses
./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/ncurses-test \
            --with-shared \
            --with-termlib \
            --enable-widec
  1. Build & Install
make -j$(nproc)
make install

Tip

For clangd-autocomplete in Neovim, Build & Install with:

bear -- make -j$(nproc)
bear --append -- make install

Usage

You may simply temporarily set evn-variables to:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/ncurses-test/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=$HOME/opt/ncurses-test/bin:$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/opt/ncurses-test/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

and then simply run any app you want to test. If you want to build your app with it, you may do something like:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/opt/ncurses-test/lib/pkgconfig \
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/ncurses-test/lib \
gcc ncurses_mouse.c -o ncm.o $(pkg-config --cflags --libs ncursesw)