WindowsInstallation

Installing Goncurses on Windows is not near as easy as on other platforms. You have been warned.

Prerequisites

• A working copy of MinGW toolchain (Msys or Cygwin NOT required) that matches the architecture (32/64 bit) of the Go tools installed on your machine (NOT the architecture of your OS).
• PDCurses 3.4 or higher installed and working. Earlier versions (confirmed with 2.5) are known not to work. The location of the C headers and libraries do not matter at this point.
• Git SCM

Installation

1. Clone goncurses either via 'go get' or 'hg clone': * (easiest) go get -d github.com/rthornton128/goncurses * cd %GOPATH%\src & md github.com/rthornton128 & git clone https://github.com/rthornton128/goncurses.git
2. overwrite the copy of curses.h distributed with PDCurses with the one located in the pdcurses sub-directory
3. set CGO_CFLAGS=-I path\to\pdcurses\headers
4. set CGO_LDFLAGS=-L path\to\pdcurses\libs
5. go install

Post Installation

To run any programs build with Goncurses you will either need to:

• Install pdcurses.dll into the same directory as any programs you wish to execute (recommended).
• Make sure pdcurses.dll is in your working directory and launch the program from there.
• Install pdcurses.dll into your system directory and register it so that Windows can find it.