Re: Perl6 NCurses module under Arch: libncursesw.so.6

2017-04-18 Thread Mark Carter
On 18/04/17 15:56, Dominique Dumont wrote: You should be able to install ncurses 5 on arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncurses5-compat-libs/ NCurses has changed recently to take into account ncurses 6 so that in future everything should work out of the box. Fingers crossed.

Re: Perl6 NCurses module under Arch: libncursesw.so.6

2017-04-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:27:25 CEST mark carter wrote: > I'm running: > This is Rakudo version 2017.01 built on MoarVM version 2017.01 > implementing Perl 6.c. > under Arch. > > When I do > $perl6 starfield.pl6 > I get: > Cannot locate native library 'libncursesw.so.5': libncursesw.so.5: > c

Re: Perl6 NCurses module under Arch: libncursesw.so.6

2017-04-13 Thread Ahmad Zawawi
Hi, Good catch. I fixed it in master by using LibraryCheck and tested it on Manjaro Linux (which is ArchLinux-based). Please let me know if it works for you. Regards, Ahmad

Re: Perl6 NCurses module under Arch: libncursesw.so.6

2017-04-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
ABI version 6 is not compatible with version 5 (in particular, color handling changed). It is not safe to just use whatever ncurses happens to be around. On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:27 PM, mark carter wrote: > I'm running: > This is Rakudo version 2017.01 built on MoarVM version 2017.01 > implemen