This is one of those boring installation/configuration questions and not programming, so please redirect me if I've posted in the wrong place. It has come time for me to leave my familiar environment and build an exe of my efforts for friends without my dev environment. I've had great success with PAR::Packer; the problem is dependency on the ncurses library. Pdcurses provides equivalent functionality in Windows, and I have successfully compiled some test programs with dev-cpp and pdcurses. I'm having lots of trouble installing the Curses module from CPAN, though. Neither by default does Makefile.PL find my pdcurses installation (the .lib, .h, and .dll in c:\pdcurses) nor with CURSES_CFLAGS and CURSES_LDFLAGS set to the appropriate -Ic:\pdcurses values. I've combed through the relevant hints/ files and build instructions, mimicking the INSTALL file's steps, but to no avail. Thus I turn to Perlmonks -- is my pdcurses installation in the wrong place, or is the problem with my configuration of Curses.pm installation? This may be more of a question for Cygwin's mailing list, but has anybody successfully built Par::Packer with the cygwin-packaged perl? If I could get this to work, would pp produce a binary exe since I'm on Win32 or another elf executable?

In reply to Installing Curses module under Win32 by dabreegster

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