Why is curses on linux giving me following error?

Question

Trying to get getch() working to capture key press.

    #include 
    ...
    ...
    WINDOW *w;
    char f;

   w = initscr();
   timeout(30         


        

Answer 1

The above answers are correct but the format is:

gcc -Wall program.c -o name_of_binary -lncurses

When I did:

gcc -Wall -lncurses program.c...

It did not work so apparently it should be tacked on the end.