Link error: “Cannot find -ltinfo” on Ubuntu 12.04 on a 32-bit arm processor

Question

I get the following link error when I\'m compiling a small function using ncurses for an Ubuntu 12.04 running on arm. The error is

arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: ca         


        

Answer 1

When you cross compile the nurses library, configure this option --with-termlib. It shall install libtinfo into your target location.

Answer 2

As mentioned by lucasg

sudo apt-get install libtinfo-dev 

solved the same problem for me.