From cbb822ff9e228883bb877ebcf4f22bb4e2cc0e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Haberkorn Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:38:08 +0100 Subject: fixup: require wide-char support even on PDCurses and document new requirements Also, Scinterm had to be updated again since NetBSD curses stores up to 8 wchar_t per cell. --- INSTALL | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index a44ee66..3816fde 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -21,13 +21,14 @@ SciTECO Build and Runtime Dependencies * Glib 2 as a cross-platform runtime library (v2.44 or later): https://developer.gnome.org/glib/ * When choosing the Curses interface, you need one of: - * NCurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). - If you plan to use the ncurses MinGW port, - I recommend ncurses 6.0 or later. + * ncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). + Should be built with wide-character support (--enable-widec). + If you plan to use the ncurses MinGW port, I recommend ncurses 6.0 or later. * NetBSD Curses (https://github.com/sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses). - This is the default on NetBSD. + This is the default on NetBSD and should always support wide characters. * PDCursesMod v4.5.4 or later (https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod.git). This is the recommended flavor of PDCurses to use. + It must be built with WIDE=Y and UTF8=Y. * PDCurses/EMCurses (https://github.com/rhaberkorn/emcurses). * PDCurses/XCurses (http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/). Note that XCurses v3.4 appears to be broken, you may have to -- cgit v1.2.3