Re: need help with rookie mistake

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
| To: "Sven Joachim" <svenjoac@gmx.de>
| Cc: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
| Sent: Monday, March 11, 2024 11:06:33 AM
| Subject: Re: need help with rookie mistake

| Hi Sven,
| 
| At 2024-03-11T13:43:17+0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
|> This works for me.
| [...]
|> Maybe your ncurses.h is too old, NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH has to be at
|> least 20230812 because the functions were added in that patchlevel.
| 
| This put me on the right track.  I was building with respect to the
| system ncurses (6.2), and not the bleeding edge I thought I was running.
| 
| I also had no idea those functions were only a few months old.

I added most of the "opaque" functions for structures in the public headers 
several years ago

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20070331

but these are data in the internal headers

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/blob/7c7da8426ba4c513bf6f7f5eac2abe1c3b586dbc/ncurses/curses.priv.h#L950

prompted by this:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-08/msg00007.html

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net