ncurses6-config(1)

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version 6.6+20260608 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ ncurses6-config — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to ncurses6-config(1) from the User commands section of the manual 💖 this is the little helper that does your homework when you're trying to build stuff against ncurses. she's not flashy, she's just useful. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ncurses6-config</purgle> — configuration helper for ncurses libraries ✨

(no fr that's literally the whole job. she tells you where stuff is and what flags to use. icon behaviour honestly 👑)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ncurses6-config option ...
ncurses6-config --version
ncurses6-config --help

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: this program is a program development aid and what it does is simplify the process of configuring applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries. 💅

that's it. that's the vibe. you ask her a question, she answers with a path or a flag string, you paste it into your Makefile, and suddenly your build works. main character energy fr fr. 😭✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --prefix — reports the package prefix of ncurses.
  • --exec-prefix — reports the executable prefix of ncurses.
  • --cflags — reports the C compiler flags needed to compile with ncurses. 🌈
  • --libs — reports the libraries needed to link with ncurses. 🔥
  • --abi-version — reports the ABI version of ncurses.
  • --mouse-version — reports the mouse-interface version of ncurses. 🐭
  • --bindir — reports the directory containing ncurses programs.
  • --datadir — reports the directory containing ncurses data.
  • --includedir — reports the directory containing ncurses header files.
  • --libdir — reports the directory containing ncurses libraries.
  • --mandir — reports the directory containing ncurses man pages. (yes, like the one you're reading rn 🥹)
  • --terminfo — reports the TERMINFO terminfo database path, for example /etc/terminfo.
  • --terminfo-dirs — reports the TERMINFO_DIRS supplemental search path for the terminfo database, for example /etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo.
  • --termpath — reports the TERMPATH supplemental search path for the termcap database, if support for termcap is configured.

👑 the bossy ones 👑

bestie listen. the following options cause all others to be ignored. they said "not me being the main character" and honestly? they ate. 💀✨
  • --help — issues a usage message and exits successfully. 🎀
  • --version — issues the release and patch date information of ncurses and exits successfully. 🦋

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

  • ncurses(3NCURSES)

and that's a wrap on ncurses6-config(1) bestie 💜 she's serving ncurses 6.6, dated 2024-05-11, and she did it all without breaking a sweat. go forth and configure your builds, you absolute legend 🌟🫶

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