ncurses test in response to a question on stackoverflow.com

README.md

Code sample in response to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9541679/undefined-reference-to-stdscr/9541700#comment12103107_9541700

This works on my Ubuntu 11.04 system.

Makefile

CPP           = g++
CPPFLAGS      = -c -Wall -g
LINK          = g++
LDFLAGS_LINUX = -lpthread -lncurses
LDFLAGS       = $(LDFLAGS_LINUX)

.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .o .cpp

.cpp.o:
	$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) $*.cpp -o $(SRC_DIR)$*.o

skygrid: skygrid.o
	$(LINK) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^

clean:
	$(RM) -rf *.o skygrid

all:            skygrid

skygrid.o:      skygrid.cpp

output.txt

$ make
g++ -c -Wall -g skygrid.cpp -o skygrid.o
g++ -lpthread -lncurses -o skygrid skygrid.o
$ ./skygrid 
&stdscr = 0x804a040
$ 

skygrid.cpp

#include <ncurses.h>
#include <iostream>
int main() {
    std::cout << "&stdscr = " << (void*)&stdscr << "\n";
}