ncursesw6-config(1)

💖 ncursesw6-config — bestie's lil helper script for ncurses 💖

okay so this page is ncursesw6-config</p>, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section, iykyk ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ncursesw6-config</p> — the helper script for ncurses libraries 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ncursesw6-config [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, this is a shell script and its whole entire job is making it easier to configure applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries. that's it, that's the vibe 💅 it just tells your build system what it needs to know so you don't have to go digging around in directories like a little raccoon 🦝✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, no skips, we're eating the whole menu fr fr 🍓

• --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, e.g., /etc/terminfo
• --terminfo-dirs — echos the $TERMINFO_DIRS directory list, e.g., /etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo
• --termpath — echos the $TERMPATH termcap list, if support for termcap is configured — key detail bestie, it's a whole conditional 👀
• --help — prints this message

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ncurses(3NCURSES)

also important: this describes ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20221231) — don't come for me if your version is a different era 💀

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and that's the whole page, babes 🎀 this one's from the ncursesw6-config(1)</p> page in the General Commands Manual, describing ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20221231) — go configure something iconic, ily, bye 💅💖✨