c3270 Additional Build and Install Instructions

This file describes build and install information specific to c3270. For general build information, look here.

Wide Curses Requirement

c3270 needs the 'wide' version of the curses or ncurses library (one that supports multi-byte character encodings). Without wide curses or ncurses, c3270 will be restricted to using the 7-bit basic ASCII character set.

On some platforms, the standard curses or ncurses library is the wide version and no extra packages need be installed. On others, a special wide ncurses package is needed. On still others (such as on Solaris, documented below) the wide curses library is installed in a special location and configure must be told where to locate it using CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS.

Notes for Ubuntu

Additonal packages needed to compile c3270 are:

libncursesw5-dev

Notes for Cygwin

Additional Cygwin packages are needed to compile c3270:

The libncurses-devel package from the Devel group
For command-line editing and history, the readline package from the Devel group

Notes for Solaris

c3270 prefers wide curses, which on Solaris is in the /usr/xpg4 directory. To use this version of curses, set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS when running configure:

   ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/xpg4/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/xpg4/lib

c3270-Specific `configure` Options

The c3270 configure script accepts the following c3270-specific option: