github.com/vit1251/goncurses

Overview

Goncurses is an unicode ncurses library for the Go programming language. It requires both pkg-config and ncurses C development files be installed.

Installation

The go tool is the recommended method of installing goncurses. Issue the following command on the command line:

$ go get github.com/vit1251/goncurses

Linux compile errors

Since native nature of ncurses no problem is register.

OSX compile errors

Most OSX version provide outdate curses C library version 5.3 and goncurses unable operate with that outdate version.

You may use brew system to update your ncurses (recomended version >= 6.3).

$ brew install ncurses

And setup you pkg-config directory as shown after:

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig"

Microsoft Windows compile errors

Since Microsoft Windows actually does not support POSIX subsystem and terminal subsystem, use a C library such as ncurses does not make sence.

You can use more suitable WinAPI terminal library instead.

Initially, the author tried to add support for pdncurses, but this issue needs to be resolved by higher-level libraries outside of support for the ncurses library name.

Support for the Microsft Windows system has been removed and in the future the library will issue an explicit build error on this platform.

FreeBSD compile errors

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