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I'm learning C and playing with the ncurses lib. I have seen references to both -lcurses and -lncurses but I have yet to find any differences (both work when compiling).
Appreciate the help!
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Curses is the name of the original library from SystemV. NCurses is an open source implementation of the library, with the same API. Every implementation will provide their specific header, like ncurses.
ncurses-libs - Ncurses libraries The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" application software that runs under a terminal emulator.
ncurses (new curses, pronounced "enn-curses") started as a freely distributable “clone” of System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses. It has outgrown the “clone” description, and now contains many features which are not in SVr4 curses. Curses is a pun on the term “cursor optimization”.
ncurses is an open-source clone of the original Unix curses library. libcurses.* usually points to libncurses.* to provide compatibility with the original library, so there would be no practical difference between using one over the other.
If you do in fact have more than one 'curses-type' library installed, -lcurses would essentially link your program to the default one, whereas -lncurses would explicitly choose the ncurses implementation.
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