Statically link ncurses to program

Question

I\'m having some problems statically linking ncurses to one of my programs

Here\'s a really simple sample program:

#include


int ma         


        

Answer 1

You need to pass -l options at the end of the command line:

gcc -static hello_curses.c -o curses -lncurses

When the compiler encounters -lfoo, it links in all the symbols from foo that have been requested by a previous file. If you put -lfoo at the beginning, no symbol has been requested yet, so no symbol gets linked.