Good day,
My Problem
I'm attempting to create a Program on a Linux System that will be able
to be run on a Windows System. This program uses the CURSES feature and
I'm having problems in generating a successfull load Module.
My Environment
Development Computer
Pentium 4
Linux 2.4.18
Caldera 2.3
Mingw 1.1
PDCurses 2.4
Production Computer
Compaq i486
Windows 95
Processing
I generated MINGW as a Cross Compiler for creating Windows formated Object
Modules using the procedure described by Reinhard Jessich at his site
members.telering.at/jessich/mingw.
The pdcurses-mingw32-libs.tar.gz file that I installed had two versions of
the Library in it:
libcurses.a
libpdcurses.a
Errors
When I use Mingw to create a Load modules and specify -lpdcurses, it
assembles fine but when I bring it over to the Windows System to run it,
I get the following message:
A required DLL file, PDCURSES.DLL was not found.
I cannot find any mention on the Net on where I can get a copy of this
DLL or how I can create it.
I saw a posting from someone saying that Mingw supplied two PDC libraries,
one called libpdcurses for use with Dynamic Linking and another called
libpdcurses_s.a for Static linking. I assume that if I used a static
library, I wouldn't get the problem of the missing PDCURSES.DLL file.
I cannnot find any mention on the Net on where I can get this Static Library.
It was not part of the files from Mingw.
I thought that perhapes I should try using the libcurses.a library since
it might be the static library. When I did an assembly using that one,
I received a number of the followng messages:
undefined references to __imp_iob.
Summary
My questions to everyone reading this note are the following:
1. Can someone tell me where I can find a copy of the PDCURSES.DLL file
or how it can be created?
2. Can someone tell me how I can get a copy of the libpdcurses_s.a file
if that is the library to be used to do static compiles?
3. Can anyone tell me how to get around the problem of the undefined
references to __imp_iob?
Any assistance in helping me to get PDCurses to run with Mingw will be
greatly appreciated.
Yours truly,
Frank Krauss
