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Section 5 - Building the Base System Tools

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NCurses 32-bit

Name: NCurses 32-bit
Summary: Terminal-independent library for console interfaces
License: MIT
Version: 6.5-20250823
URL: https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/ncurses-6.5-20250823.tgz

Average Build Time: 0.2 SBU
Used Install Space: 46 MiB

Configuration

To configure NCurses 32-bit for install into the build root, run the following commands:

make distclean
CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32"         \
./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
            --libdir=/usr/lib        \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib    \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man  \
            --with-shared            \
            --without-debug          \
            --without-normal         \
            --with-cxx-shared        \
            --enable-pc-files        \
            --with-pkg-config-libdir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig

Compilation and Installation

To compile NCurses 32-bit, run the following command:

make

Finally, to install NCurses 32-bit into the build tree, run the following commands:

make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
mkdir -p DESTDIR/usr/lib/pkgconfig
for lib in ncurses form panel menu ; do
    rm -vf                    DESTDIR/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
    echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" > DESTDIR/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
    ln -svf ${lib}w.pc        DESTDIR/usr/lib/pkgconfig/$lib.pc
done
rm -vf                     DESTDIR/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > DESTDIR/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
ln -sfv libncurses.so      DESTDIR/usr/lib/libcurses.so
cp -Rfv DESTDIR/usr/lib/* /usr/lib
rm -rf DESTDIR

Contents

See the contents section of the 64-bit build of NCurses for details.

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