Running STFL (Terminal UI) on the Mac is possible. Four small changes are needed inside three files.

diff -ur stfl-0.24/Makefile stfl-0.24.new/Makefile
--- stfl-0.24/Makefile    2015-02-12 07:14:33.000000000 -0600
+++ stfl-0.24.new/Makefile    2017-10-10 02:40:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

 export CC = gcc -pthread
 export CFLAGS += -I. -Wall -Os -ggdb -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC
-export LDLIBS += -lncursesw
+export LDLIBS += -lncurses -liconv

 SONAME  := libstfl.so.0
 VERSION := 0.24
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@

 libstfl.so.$(VERSION): public.o base.o parser.o dump.o style.o bindin
+g.o iconv.o \
                        $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard widgets/*.c))
-    $(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname,$(SONAME) -o $@ $(LDLIBS) $^
+    $(CC) -shared -Wl,-install_name,$(SONAME) -o $@ $(LDLIBS) $^

 clean:
     rm -f libstfl.a example core core.* *.o Makefile.deps
diff -ur stfl-0.24/perl5/Makefile.PL stfl-0.24.new/perl5/Makefile.PL
--- stfl-0.24/perl5/Makefile.PL    2007-09-03 11:13:49.000000000 -0500
+++ stfl-0.24.new/perl5/Makefile.PL    2017-10-10 02:37:34.000000000 -
+0500
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
         "NAME"      => "stfl",
     # The -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE are needed by perl (not
+ STFL!) on some systems
     "CCFLAGS"   => "-pthread -I.. -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE
+",
-        "LIBS"      => ["-lpthread -lncursesw"],
+        "LIBS"      => ["-lpthread -lncurses -liconv"],
         "OBJECT"    => "stfl_wrap.o ../libstfl.a"
 );
diff -ur stfl-0.24/stfl_internals.h stfl-0.24.new/stfl_internals.h
--- stfl-0.24/stfl_internals.h    2015-01-05 04:47:32.000000000 -0600
+++ stfl-0.24.new/stfl_internals.h    2017-10-10 02:23:32.000000000 -0
+500
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #endif

 #include "stfl.h"
-#include <ncursesw/ncurses.h>
+#include <ncurses.h>
 #include <pthread.h>

 struct stfl_widget_type;
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Swig is needed for making the Perl module later on.

$ tar xzf $HOME/Downloads/swig-3.0.12.tar.gz
$ cd swig-3.0.12
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
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Afterwards, follow the instructions found here.

Regards, Mario

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