Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Support ncurses on MacOS

[Brad Smith]

This same problem also applies to OpenBSD as we have the same
version of ncurses with support for wide characters. I have a similar
patch in our QEMU port.

On 6/12/2021 4:03 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> MacOS provides header files for curses 5.7 with support
> for wide characters, but requires _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1
> to activate that.
>
> By default those old header files are used even if there
> is a newer Homebrew installation of ncurses 6.2 available.
>
> Change also the old macro definition of NCURSES_WIDECHAR
> and set it to 1 like it is done in newer versions of
> curses.h when _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1 is defined.
>
> Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> ---
>   meson.build | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index d2a9ce91f5..3ca8faa264 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -606,7 +606,11 @@ if have_system and not get_option('curses').disabled()
>       endif
>     endforeach
>     msg = get_option('curses').enabled() ? 'curses library not found' : ''
> -  curses_compile_args = ['-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR']
> +  if host_machine.system() == 'darwin'
> +    curses_compile_args = [ '-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1']
> +  else
> +    curses_compile_args = ['-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1']
> +  endif
>     if curses.found()
>       if cc.links(curses_test, args: curses_compile_args, dependencies: 
> [curses])
>         curses = declare_dependency(compile_args: curses_compile_args, 
> dependencies: [curses])