Compilation error on OpenBSD

[swindlesmccoop]

When running make, I get the following error:

Package ncursesw was not found in the pkg-config search path

I have plenty of other programs on my machine that use ncursesw and have compiled them before, so I'm not sure what the issue would be here.

[thimc]

The issue is that the Makefile relies on pkg-config to get the necessary compilation and linking flags for the ncurses library. This does not work on OpenBSD because there is no pkg-config metadata for ncurses on OpenBSD.

TLDR; Try running the following command: cc -o rover rover.c -lcurses

[B4rb3rouss]

Indeed, pkg-config is useless here. Use the following diff to edit Makefile:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c2890fe..d589e2c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,13 +8,12 @@ CFLAGS ?= -O2
 
 PKG_CONFIG ?= pkg-config
 
-CFLAGS_NCURSESW := `$(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags ncursesw`
-LIBS_NCURSESW := `$(PKG_CONFIG) --libs ncursesw`
+LIBS_NCURSESW := -lncursesw
 
 all: rover
 
 rover: rover.c config.h
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_NCURSESW) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS_NCURSESW)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS_NCURSESW) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS)
 
 install: rover
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/rover