Hello, my name is Timothy; I recently set up the Gnome version of Linux Mint to dual-boot on my desktop. I do a fair bit of hobby programming, mostly in C++ or C# up to this point, and I'd like to try Vala. I've followed the avaliable tutorials, and I'm getting the hang of the differences between it and C# (as well as Java, which the university I'm attending teaches). I would like to try developing a curses-based (ncurses) application using Vala and MonoDevelop, but I'm having some difficulties in setting it up.
I first tried downloading the tar through firefox, unzipped it, and tried to build it using: ./configure make The configure command worked, but I received errors when I tried to make it: make[1]: *** [../objects/cursesf.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/-------/Desktop/ncurses-5.9/c++' make: *** [all] Error 2 At a later suggestion I found through Google, I tried to apt-get ncurses: sudo apt-get install build-essentials sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev But it couldn't seem to find either package. Unfortunately, my only real experience in programming thus far has been in either NetBeans or Visual Studio, and both on Windows. Any pointers on how to set up MonoDevelop/Vala to work with curses would be most appreciated! Ncurses was attempted only because my initial searches for Vala curses bindings/vapi file returned results from this mailing list, in which is mentioned being tested and functional with ncurses. Any curses variant/branch which works with Vala would be fine. Thank you for your time and effort, Timothy S.
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