in reply to Re^4: Curses-based applications?
in thread Curses-based applications?

fantasic!
So you've managed tvision to run on termux and provided a fix for it?

Cool!

Thanks! )

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^6: Curses-based applications? - TVision installation on Linux
by marioroy (Prior) on Apr 05, 2025 at 03:55 UTC

    Perl TVision installation on Linux

    The C library build requirements are "libncursesw" (note the 'w') and "libgpm" for mouse support. Install dev/devel packages if packaged separately i.e. on Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

    # On Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S ncurses gpm

    [download]

    The Perl module build requires "Text::Template" to make "TVision-methods.xs" and "typemap". Install manually if missing.

    # On Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S perl-text-template
# or via CPAN
sudo cpanm -n Text::Template

    [download]

    From the Turbo Vision README, the runtime requirements are "xsel" or "xclip" for clipboard support in X11 or "wl-clipboard" in Wayland environments.

    # On Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S xsel          # X11
sudo pacman -S wl-clipboard  # Wayland

    [download]

    Build the "Turbo Vision" C shared library

    This requires a line change in "source/CMakeLists.txt" or the Perl module will fail due to missing shared library.

    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
cd tvision

sed -i 's! STATIC ! SHARED !g' source/CMakeLists.txt
cmake . -B ./build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build ./build

sudo cmake --install ./build
cd ..

    [download]

    Build the "TVision" Perl module

    The GCC "-fpermissive" option is needed or the compiler will exit due to type mismatch.

    Ignore the MANIFEST missing warnings. It assumes having "tvision.git" in this folder.

    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/vadrerko/perl-tvision
cd perl-tvision

X_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -fpermissive -fPIC"
X_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -ltvision -lncursesw -lgpm"

perl Makefile.PL --cflags="$X_CFLAGS" --ldflags="$X_LDFLAGS"

make TVision-methods.xs
make typemap
make
make test

perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib t/f.t
perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib demo/forms.pl
perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib demo/tdialog.pl

sudo make install
cd ..

    [download]

    This worked for me on Arch-based Linux distro.

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]
      thank you for your feedback,
      the module now is on its way for stabilisation, right now it is not finished and actually not ready for the actual release.

      Currently, I am in progress of borrowing of geometry managers from tcl/tk, which is somewhat non-trivial, and am planning to finish with geometry managers in a week or two.

      After that, will need to implement callbacks (also with tcl/tk like syntax) and then investigate about memory leaks.

[reply]
[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom