HOW TO INSTALL ncurses on MacOSX

install ncurses on macosx

$ curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
$ cd ./ncurses-5.9
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
  --without-cxx --without-cxx-binding --without-ada --without-progs --without-curses-h \
  --with-shared --without-debug \
  --enable-widec --enable-const --enable-ext-colors --enable-sigwinch --enable-wgetch-events \
&& make
$ sudo make install

Hello,
Today I ran into the same problem and after looking at the responses and trying almost everything, I keep running into the same problem. brew install ncurses may work fine for some, but does anyone have any other ideas I could try. Would be highly appreciated.

Sadly, I couldn't solve it :(

hi guys
I have a problem like this...
I tried "sudo make install"
"? tic could not build /usr/local/share/terminfo
make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2"
how can i solve it?....

hi guys
I have a problem like this...
I tried "sudo make install"
"? tic could not build /usr/local/share/terminfo
make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2"
how can i solve it?....

i solved it like this
$./configure
$make
& sudo make install

It's probably already installed as osx uses it. Just tell gcc to link to it: gcc -lncurses ...

Linker issues mean that you didn't invoke -lncurses when compiling. ncurses requires this, as well as other ncurses libs, i.e. to compile a c file using ncurses and the ncurses' 'form' lib you'd use: gcc -o -lform -lncurses [file] [name]

If using xcode the linker options are buried under project->build settings->all->other linker flags.

This works thanks