E.8.3 (PD)Curses

In order to get the nice full screen interface when spell checking files, a curses implementation that does not require Cygwin is required. The PDCurses (http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net) implementation is known to work, other implementations may work however they have not been tested. See the previous section for information on specifying the location of the curses library and include file.

Curses notes:

• PDcurses built with MinGW needs to be compiled with ‘-DPDC_STATIC_BUILD’ to avoid duplicate declaration of ‘DllMain’ when compiling ‘aspell.exe’.
• The curses enabled version can cause trouble in some shells (MSys rxvt, emacs) and will produce errors like ‘initscr() LINES=1 COLS=1: too small’. Use a non-curses version for those purposes.