Installing ncurses for ruby on Windows

Question

I am trying to install ncurses for ruby on windows. I have not installed ncurses before on my machine. I thought that having the \"ruby devkit\", it had asked for would be e

Answer 1

I've managed to do it for ruby 2.2, which doesn't come with curses by default, but it took me a while:

• Download PDCurses from SourceForge;
• Unzip it;
• Copy it's contents to a folder where ruby can see it. I'm not sure which one I used, I think I copied it to multiple ones until it worked. ruby -e 'puts $:' might help;
• Install curses, gem instal curses. If the previous step was wrong, this will fail;
• Done :D

This method didn't work for other gems, like ffi-ncurses. Tip: most of curses functionality comes from the Window class, which comes with curses by default.