ncurses6-config(1)

💖 NAME 💖

ncurses6-config — the lil helper script bestie for ncurses libraries ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ncurses6-config [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, this is a shell script, right? and its whole job is to make it so much easier to configure your applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries. that's it, that's the vibe. it's giving "I got you, bestie" 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --prefix — echos the package-prefix of ncurses 🏠
• --exec-prefix — echos the executable-prefix of ncurses 🏃
• --cflags — echos the C compiler flags you need to compile with ncurses 🔨
• --libs — echos the libraries you need to link with ncurses 🔗
• --version — echos the release+patchdate version of ncurses 📅
• --abi-version — echos the ABI version of ncurses 🧬
• --mouse-version — echos the mouse-interface version of ncurses 🐭
• --bindir — echos the directory containing ncurses programs 📂
• --datadir — echos the directory containing ncurses data 🗄️
• --includedir — echos the directory containing ncurses header files 📄
• --libdir — echos the directory containing ncurses libraries 📚
• --mandir — echos the directory containing ncurses manpages 📖
• --terminfo — echos the $TERMINFO terminfo database path, like for example /etc/terminfo 🌈
• --terminfo-dirs — echos the $TERMINFO_DIRS directory list, like for example /etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo 🌟
• --termpath — echos the $TERMPATH termcap list, if support for termcap is configured 🫶
• --help — prints this message 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• curses(3X)

fr fr, this whole page describes ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20221231).

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k bye bestie, go configure something iconic with your ncurses setup 💜✨ this was the ncurses6-config(1) page, General Commands Manual, and yes she ate 👑🎀