# \[ANN\] ncurses-ruby 0.6

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ncurses-ruby-0-6/2946>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [17 November 2002 21:35 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ncurses-ruby-0-6/2946 "2002-11-17T21:35:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tobias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tobias1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tobias1)\
**Post date:** [17 November 2002 21:35 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ncurses-ruby-0-6/2946/1 "2002-11-17T21:35:17Z")

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ncurses-ruby makes most functions, constants, and external variables of  
the FSF’s C library “ncurses” accessible from ruby. Additionally,  
ncurses-ruby can now also be used in conjunction with the PDCurses  
library, in which case it wraps the common subset of features of both  
libraries. A binary package for Windows/MinGW/PDCurses is available.

Homepage: [http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/](http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/)

Starting with version 0.6, all wrapper code is written in plain C which  
should fix compilation problems with several C+±compiler/ruby-distribution  
combinations.

Tobias

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**Author:** ![Pit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@Pit](https://rubytalk.org/u/Pit)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2002 08:15 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ncurses-ruby-0-6/2946/2 "2002-11-19T08:15:18Z")

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Would it be possible to use JTTui (in RAA) on Windows with your  
library?

Regards,  
Pit

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> On 18 Nov 2002 at 6:35, Tobias Peters wrote:
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> > ncurses-ruby makes most functions, constants, and external variables  
> > of the FSF’s C library “ncurses” accessible from ruby. Additionally,  
> > ncurses-ruby can now also be used in conjunction with the PDCurses  
> > library, in which case it wraps the common subset of features of both  
> > libraries. A binary package for Windows/MinGW/PDCurses is available.

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**Author:** ![Tobias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tobias1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tobias1)\
**Post date:** [22 November 2002 10:37 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-ncurses-ruby-0-6/2946/3 "2002-11-22T10:37:22Z")

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No. Jakub’s nice TUI library does not use ncurses-ruby in any way.

But nonetheless, it runs fine on windows with cygwin.

If you don’t want cygwin, you may be able to compile it with PDCurses, or  
port it to PDCurses if it has not already been done.

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> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pit Capitain wrote:
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> > Would it be possible to use JTTui (in RAA) on Windows with your  
> > library?