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Frank Lane writes:

> Dear Gnu:
> 	I didn't really know how to start this letter so....


> 	I was hoping that someone there might give me some help.  I am using
> the gnu compiler in a cross development kind of way.  We have an SGI iris L
> series, a truly behemoth computer(well sort of), that we use to compile and
> partially link code bound for an MC68060 platform.  The final link is
> accomplished with the download.  The operating system of the MC68060 is
> VxWorks.

> 	The reason that I'm writing is this:  Is there anyway that I can take
> the curses library routines and convert them over for use in the target
> environment?  I tried just linking them in with the other relocatable object
> (something tells me I was dreaming or just wishfully thinking!) and keep
> getting undefined symbol errors.  Please write back, my boss is demanding I
> generate a screen interface for a simulation I have yet to develop.  Curses, if
> it will run under VxWorks on the 68060, seems like a logical choice.

Just taking the curses library to the target architecture should not
work.  Why don't you build ncurses in the target architecture (or with
the cross-compiler), and link with it instead?

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil