perl-macos-curses-install-from-source

# Download Curses source code from here:
#   https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GI/GIRAFFED/Curses-1.38.tar.gz
# extract it and change to the source directory

$  brew info ncurses
ncurses: stable 6.3 (bottled) [keg-only]
Text-based UI library
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3 (3,968 files, 9.6MB)
  Poured from bottle on 2022-02-22 at 00:08:28
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/ncurses.rb
License: MIT
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔
==> Caveats
ncurses is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /opt/homebrew,
because macOS already provides this software and installing another version in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.

If you need to have ncurses first in your PATH, run:
  echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

For compilers to find ncurses you may need to set:
  export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/include"

For pkg-config to find ncurses you may need to set:
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig"

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig" pkg-config --libs ncurses
-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3/lib -Wl,-search_paths_first -lncursesw

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig" pkg-config --cflags ncurses
-D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3/include/ncursesw -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3/include

# Run perl Makefile.PL with these settings:
$ CURSES_LIBTYPE=ncurses CURSES_LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3/lib -Wl,-search_paths_first -lncursesw" CURSES_CFLAGS="-D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3/include/ncursesw -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3/include"  perl Makefile.PL
GEN    function:  not applicable
PANELS functions: not enabled
MENUS  functions: not enabled
FORMS  functions: not enabled

Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Curses
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

# Then compile, test, and install the module
$ make
$ otool -L blib/arch/auto/Curses/Curses.bundle
blib/arch/auto/Curses/Curses.bundle:
	/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib/libncursesw.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1311.0.0)
$ make test
$ make install