Hello fellow monks,

the task I'm facing is clear: installing Curses to a CamelPack perl on Win32. CamelPack (but Strawberry Perl is the same) uses mingw, or gcc if you prefer.

To correctly find the libraries, I had to customize the Makefile.PL with a "gcc" flavour of Win32 install. The problem is in the compile process. It bombs out with a long list of "invalid operands for binary -" errors. Surely I can also post the complete error messages, if anyone got a clue of what is happening...

I suspect this has to do with some compiler differences between MSVC, Borland C++ and gcc. I tried to fiddle with dXSARGS and dITEMS macro expansions in XSUB.h, but with no luck.

I searched for other people's experiences. On perlmonks, it seems that [id://crazyinsomniac] and [id://PodMaster] managed to do something, but both (momentarily?) are out of reach..
I also tried to apply magic ppport.h code suggestions, but this led to no progress...

So... has anyone ever managed to install Curses on Win32?
Some tips? Thank you.

In reply to Compile and install of Curses v1.14 under Win32 mingw by cosimo

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