Support for libncurses6

[emk2203]

ttyplot needs libncurses5 and libtinfo5 to be installed. I am running Lubuntu 19.04, which already uses libncurses6 and libtinfo6, so ttyplotthrows errors:

ttyplot: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After trying to fix by running sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5,

ttyplot is still not happy:

ttyplot: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: versionNCURSES_TINFO_5.0.19991023' not found (required by ttyplot) ttyplot: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5: version NCURSES_5.0.19991023' not found (required by ttyplot)

Could the binary ttyplot version for linux (ttyplot-amd64-linux) please support the ncurses6 libraries as well? It should be enough to just compile it on a ncurses/tinfo6 system.

It was easy to compile ttyplot after installation of libncurses-dev and libtinfo-dev, but since you supply all these binaries, it would be very comfortable to have out-of-the-box support as well.

[tenox7]

you mean for a binary release right? or is there any issue compiling source with ncurses6? I think I should release statically build binaries just in case

[emk2203]

Yes, the binary release. Compiling source w/ ncurses6 was no problem at all, it was just the observation that the binary won't work for newer distributions (due to release in April).

[tenox7]

yeah, I tend to compile on older systems for compatibility, I guess I forgot to make it statically linked, I have opened a new issue to make release static

[tenox7]

releases are now statically linked with ncurses where possible