Undefined reference to `stdscr' while using ncurses

Question

I am trying to compile my code in Ubuntu 11.10 and getting these errors and more.So far by googling it I think it is a linking error. Specifically, there have been suggestio

Answer 1

I was having this problem with an ncurses program on Centos 6.2. It turns out that ncurses is sometimes split into two libraries, ncurses and tinfo. In my case, stdscr exists in libtinfo, not in libncurses, so adding -ltinfo to the link line, after -lncurses, solved the problem.