ncursesw6-config(1) — Linux manual page

ncursesw6-config(1)           User commands           ncursesw6-config(1)

NAME         top

       ncursesw6-config - configuration helper for ncurses libraries

SYNOPSIS         top

       ncursesw6-config option ...

       ncursesw6-config --version

       ncursesw6-config --help

DESCRIPTION         top

       This program development aid simplifies the process of configuring
       applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries.

OPTIONS         top

       --prefix
              reports the package prefix of ncurses.

       --exec-prefix
              reports the executable prefix of ncurses.

       --cflags
              reports the C compiler flags needed to compile with
              ncurses.

       --libs reports the libraries needed to link with ncurses.

       --abi-version
              reports the ABI version of ncurses.

       --mouse-version
              reports the mouse-interface version of ncurses.

       --bindir
              reports the directory containing ncurses programs.

       --datadir
              reports the directory containing ncurses data.

       --includedir
              reports the directory containing ncurses header files.

       --libdir
              reports the directory containing ncurses libraries.

       --mandir
              reports the directory containing ncurses man pages.

       --terminfo
              reports the TERMINFO terminfo database path, for example
              /usr/share/terminfo.

       --terminfo-dirs
              reports the TERMINFO_DIRS supplemental search path for the
              terminfo database, for example /usr/share/terminfo.

       --termpath
              reports the TERMPATH supplemental search path for the
              termcap database, if support for termcap is configured.

       The following options cause all others to be ignored.

       --help issues a usage message and exits successfully.

       --version
              issues the release and patch date information of ncurses
              and exits successfully.

SEE ALSO         top

       curses(3X)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the ncurses (new curses) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, send it to bug-ncurses@gnu.org.
       This page was obtained from the tarball ncurses-6.6.tar.gz fetched
       from ⟨https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/⟩ on 2026-01-16.  If you
       discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
       or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the
       page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information
       in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page),
       send a mail to man-pages@man7.org

ncurses 6.6                     2024-05-11            ncursesw6-config(1)

HTML rendering created 2026-01-16 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH.