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[the_shadows]

I tried to compail newest version of lcs v4.10.0 which is avaiable here: https://github.com/Kamal-Sadek/Liberal-Crime-Squad/releases/tag/v4.10.0 . I used Code::Blocks with newest version of MinGW and tried to compile windows version. What i undredstood from COMPAIL_README it should be pritty easy job with code::blocks and MinGW but i just get some error related to ncurses while compailing. Error is:
ld.exe cannot find -lncurses
error: ld returned 1 exit status.

COMPAIL_README did not say do i need to install ncurses or how to install it, so im bit confused how to fix problem on Windows.

If anyone knows what is the problem it would help a lot.

[zaimoni]

NCurses does not exist on Windows.  As part of fixing the build instructions for that version of LCS, you'll need to use PDCurses (or a descendant) instead.

[the_shadows]

I installed pdcruses and just got more errors including cannot find -lncurses. So I assume that I have to change something so it tries to use pdcurses instead of ncurses. Other errors are now C:\CodeBlocks\pdcurses\win32\pdcurses.a(addstr.o):addstr.c|| multiple definition of `addstr'|
and C:\CodeBlocks\pdcurses\win32\pdcurses.a(addstr.o):addstr.c|| multiple definition of `mvaddstr'|

I have very little coding expirience so COMPAIL_README does not help much.

[zaimoni]

Ok, this could get painful.  I didn't have nearly as much trouble building PDCurses, but it was a few years ago.

PDCurses is meant to be built as a C library.  My build process was somewhat different (MingW32 4.3.3, autoconf build using the MingW32 bash); I ended up with a libpdcurses.a which I put in my c:\usr\local\lib.  I link this with -lpdcurses .

[Kamal-Sadek]

That's completely my bad. You need to conditionally set the flags in Code::Blocks depending on what platform you're compiling for. Will definitely update ASAP to prevent future confusion, and will update here when I dig up the flags for the windows port. Probably going to have to wait until the weekend though. Sorry the_shadows!