---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:52:10 +0800 > From: yakumolx@xxxxxxxxx > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [arch-general] package ncurses lacks c++ support > > In core/ncurses, we have c++ wrapper header files like cursesw.h, but the corresponding library was not included. > Actually, gnu ncurses itself only builds a static "libncurses++.a". > Is there any need to do some extra work to add a libncurses++.so to the package? I'm not sure how to build that one shared, file a bug report. We ship the pkg-config file, so we need to ship the library, too, in one form or another.