Hello all,

I'd like to install Term::Visual and to do this, Curses is required. The system is SuSE 9.3. Using perl -MCPAN, I summon the installtion of Curses and it starts with a splash of: 

Doing test compiles with the compile command 'cc -DSYM="_C_SYM_"
-I/usr/include/curses -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
-DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o _C_FILE_ _C_FILE_.c
-lncurses>/dev/null 2>&1'

function 'waddch' NOT found
function 'wechochar' NOT found
function 'waddchstr' NOT found
function 'waddchnstr' NOT found
function 'waddstr' NOT found
function 'waddnstr' NOT found

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... goes on like that for quite a while ...

And then it starts seeing conflicts: 

cc -c -I/usr/include/curses -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
-DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -march=i586
-mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -g -Wall -pipe
-DVERSION=\"1.13\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.13\"
-fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE"
Curses.c

In file included from c-config.h:9,
                 from Curses.c:11:
/usr/include/ncurses.h:285: error: conflicting types for `WINDOW'
/usr/include/curses/curses.h:159: error: previous declaration of `WIND
+OW'

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.. to finally abort the installation.

SuSE 9.3 libs and includes have both curses and ncurses installed. Has anyone had the same problem and what would be the fix to make Curses.pm happy and eventually be able to use Term::Visual ?

Thanks !

In reply to Problem installing Curses for Term::Visual by carcassonne

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