Without this, meson fails with "curses package not usable" when using ncurses 6.2. Apparently the wide functions (addwstr, etc) are hidden behind the extra define, and meson does not define it at that detection stage.
Signed-off-by: Chris Hofstaedtler <ch...@hofstaedtler.name> --- meson.build | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 9c152a85bd..7b9d92c14a 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ if have_system and not get_option('curses').disabled() endforeach msg = get_option('curses').enabled() ? 'curses library not found' : '' if curses.found() - if cc.links(curses_test, dependencies: [curses]) + if cc.links(curses_test, args: '-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR', dependencies: [curses]) curses = declare_dependency(compile_args: '-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR', dependencies: [curses]) else msg = 'curses package not usable' -- 2.29.2