[fpc-pascal] Error: cannot find -lcurses

[John Coppens]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:37:12 +0200
Greenblatt <greenblatt at inode.at> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with FreePascal 1.0.10 under SuSE 9.1. If I want to
> compile source code, which makes use of the keyboard unit, I get the
> following error message:
> 
>     /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
>     Pong(46) Error: Error while linking
>     Closing script ppas.sh
> 
> Since I'm a beginner concerning Pascal and don't know the inner-working
> of the compiler, I ask you for help.
> 
Hallo Hans-Peter

1) Do you have the ncurses library installed? (This is quite probable,
   it comes with most distributions) 
   Try: locate libcurses
   or check in /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib for that lib.
   if no luck, install it.

2) It's also possible you don't have the library in the search path,

John