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
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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
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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
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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 ..
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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 ..
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This worked for me on Arch-based Linux distro.