Thank you Axel for the reply. I will try cross compiling the libraries to arm and then compile screen.
FYI, I am using Ubunut machine with arm chroot. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Axel Beckert <a...@deuxchevaux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:33:32PM +0530, $rik@nth wrote: >> I am trying to cross compile the screen for arm and getting stuck >> while linking the ncurses libraries. > [...] >> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.7/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: >> cannot find -lncurses > [...] >> I have cross checked the lib path and able to retrieve the installed libs >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9 >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5.9 >> /lib32/libncurses.so.5 >> /lib32/libncurses.so.5.9 >> /lib32/libncursesw.so.5 >> /lib32/libncursesw.so.5.9 > > That's the problem. You need those libraries for arm, too, to > cross-compile screen for arm. Those ncurses libraries for x86 or > x86_64 are only needed if you would compile it for your local system. > > I don't know on which distribution you are, but > https://wiki.debian.org/CrossCompiling also has some distribution > independent information. Maybe this already helps. > > Kind regards, Axel > -- > /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert > \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | a...@deuxchevaux.org > (Mail) > X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | a...@noone.org > (Mail+Jabber) > / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://abe.noone.org/ > (Web) -- Thanks & Regards, M.Srikanth Kumar. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
