id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
663,include ncursesw in ncurses build,ziusudra,scottmc,"Terminal can be used with ncursesw. I've tried most of the tests that the build provides and the only issues I've seen also happen with just ncurses. (For which I will make defect tickets.)

This is what causes the ncursesw libraries to build
	--enable-widec \
This enables support for 256 colors in ncursew
	--enable-ext-colors \
This allows binaries that support it to respond to terminal size changes
	--enable-sigwinch \
This probably has no effect on Haiku as hardlinks aren't supported, but we might as well be explicit
	--enable-symlinks

Some notes:

Gentoo portage doesn't have a seperate ncursesw port unlike some other distros.

I have ported the roguelike [http://github.com/Whales/Cataclysm Cataclysm] ([http://github.com/kevingranade/Cataclysm this fork] has bug fixes) without any ncursesw issues. (Cataclysm on the other hand...)

Binaries linked with ncursesw seem to require {{{TERM=xterm-256color}}} while those linked with ncurses don't like {{{xterm-256colors}}}. However, ncurses likes {{{xterm-color}}} and ncursesw doesn't.",enhancement,closed,normal,Unscheduled,sys-libs/ncurses,,normal,fixed,,