ncursesw6-config(1)

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version 6.6 · 14 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 ncursesw6-config

okay bestie, so this is the ncursesw6-config page from the User commands section of the manual — and yes, it's literally just a little configuration helper for ncurses libraries 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ncursesw6-config — configuration helper for ncurses libraries 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ncursesw6-config option ...
ncursesw6-config --version
ncursesw6-config --help

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this program is a program development aid, and what it does — no cap — is simplify the whole process of configuring applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries. It's giving "glue code but make it cute" ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

okay here's the whole menu, one bullet per flag, no skipping, periodt 💅

  • --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.
  • --terminfo — reports the TERMINFO terminfo database path, for example /usr/share/terminfo.
  • --terminfo-dirs — reports the TERMINFO_DIRS supplemental search path for the terminfo database, for example /etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo.
  • --termpath — reports the TERMPATH supplemental search path for the termcap database, if support for termcap is configured.

👑 the main-character options 👑

⚠️ heads up bestie: the following options cause all others to be ignored. like, they do not share the spotlight. main character energy only 💀
  • --help — issues a usage message and exits successfully.
  • --version — issues the release and patch date information of ncurses and exits successfully.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

curses(3X)

and that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 — this was ncurses 6.6, dated 2024-05-11, living in section 1 of the manual as ncursesw6-config(1). mwah 💋💜

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